Current Position

• Director
• Professor D-MATL ETHZ/STI EPFL

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
     

Memberships in national and international committees

• Management Board of “Forum Holz”, Swiss Federal office for the environment (Bafu), member
• Advisory Board Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum, Freiburg (D), member
• Senior Advisor Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems
• Board of Directors RhySearch, member
• Scientific Advisory Board Innovationspark OST
• Patronage Engineers' Day
• SATW, member
• International Academy of Wood Science, Fellow
• Swiss Wood Innovation Network S-WIN, Founding member
• Pulp and Paper Organisation TAPPI, member
• Society of Wood Science and Technology, member
• American Chemical Society, member