Current Position

• CEO Empa
• Professor at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne
• Member ETH Board

Area of Expertise
Photonics, surface physics, nanotechnology
 
Memberships and Mandates in National and International Societies / Boards

• Swiss and European Physical Society, Member
• Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Member
• glatec Technology Center, Förderverein, Dübendorf, President
• Foundation Board Innovation Park Zurich, Member
• Foundation Board Technopark Zurich, Member
• Advisory Board Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany, Member
• Scientific Advisory Board, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Member
• Advisory Board Balgrist Association
• Steering Committee Digital Switzerland Association, Member
• Comet Group, Flamatt, Switzerland, Member Board of Directors
• Bobst Group, Mex, Switzerland, Member Board of Directors
• Innovation Park Ost, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Member Board of Directors

Curriculum Vitae

• Professional Career
  • since 2009 CEO Empa
  • 2008 – 2009 IBM Director Tape Storage Solu-tions, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • 2004 – 2008 IBM Research Functional Manager, Science and Technology, San Jose, California, USA
  • 1998 – 2004 IBM Research Manager Photonic, Rueschlikon
  • 1988 – 1998 IBM Research Staff Member, Rue-schlikon
  • 1987 – 1988 Postdoc IBM Research, Rueschlikon
• Education
  • 1987 PhD in Physics at ETH Zurich on "Magnetism at Surfaces by pulsed Laser excited Photoemission"
  • 1983 Diploma in Physics at ETH Zurich