Dr. Tanja Zimmermann
Current Position
- Member of Empa's Board of Directors
- Head of Department "Functional Materials”
- Head of Research Focus Area ”Sustainable Built Environment” (jointly with Giovanni Terrasi)
Membership in national and international committees
- Research commission, Federal Roads Office (FEDRO), Member
Teaching
- ETH Zurich, "Holzphysik (Neue Materialien – Nanozellulose)” for Civil Engineers and “Baumaterialien I” (Dept of Architecture)
Curriculum Vitae
- Professional Carreer
- 2017 – present Empa, Head of Department "Functional Materials"
- 2012 – present Management Board of S-WIN (Swiss Wood Innovation Network) and "Forum Holz", Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- 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