Current Position

• Director
• Professor D-MATL ETHZ/STI EPFL
• Head of Research Focus Area ”Sustainable Built Environment” (jointly with Mateusz Wyrzykowski)

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
     

Teaching

• Lecturer Wood Physics, New Materials - Nanocellulose, ETH Zurich, Institute for Building Materials, CH
   

Commissions of trust

• Management Board of S-WIN (Swiss Wood Innovation Network), CH
• Management Board of “Forum Holz”, Swiss Federal office for the environment (Bafu)
• ASTRA Federal Roads Office - Research Commission (FOKO)
• Advisory Board Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum, Freiburg (D)
• Advisory Board Fraunhofer Institut für Holzforschung, Braunschweig (D)
• Advisory Board Internationaler Verein für technische Holzfragen iVTH, Braunschweig