Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
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
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