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