Dr. Tanja Zimmermann
Current Position
- Member of Directorate
- Head of Department "Functional Materials”
- Head of Research Focus Area ”Sustainable Built Environment” (jointly with Mateusz Wyrzykowski)
Curriculum Vitae
- Professional Carreer
- 2017 – present Empa, Head of Department "Functional Materials"
- 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