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Prof. Dr. Tanja Zimmermann

Current Position

  • Director
  • Professor D-MATL ETHZ/STI EPFL
 

Curriculum Vitae

  • Professional Career
    • since June 2022 Director Empa
    • 2017 – 2022 Empa, Head of Department "Functional Materials" and member of Directorate
    • 2011 – 2017 Empa, Head of Applied Wood Materials Laboratory
    • 2001 – 2012 Empa, Group Leader Wood Science / Biomimetics (since 2006 Cellulose Nanocomposites)
    • 1994 – 2000 Empa, Research Scientist in the Wood Lab
       
  • Education
    • 2002 – 2006 PhD at Empa in collaboration with University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science
    • 1997 – 2001 Post-graduate Studies at ETH Zurich, Master of Advanced Studies in Secondary and Higher Education
    • 1992 – 1993 Master Thesis at Empa, "SEM Studies on Fracture Surfaces of Spruce Wood"
    • 1987 – 1992 Master of Science in Wood Science and Technology, University of Hamburg
       
 

Memberships in national and international committees

  • President of the board of glatec, business incubator
  • Management Board of “Forum Holz”, Swiss Federal office for the environment (Bafu), member
  • Advisory Board Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum, Freiburg (D), member
  • Senior Advisor Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems
  • Board of Directors RhySearch, Buchs, member
  • Scientific Advisory Board Innovationspark OST, St. Gallen, member
  • Scientific Advisory Board CSEM, Neuchâtel, member
  • Patronage Engineers' Day
  • SATW, member
  • International Academy of Wood Science, Fellow
  • Swiss Wood Innovation Network S-WIN, Founding member
  • Pulp and Paper Organisation TAPPI, member
  • Society of Wood Science and Technology, member
  • American Chemical Society, member