Eurosensors XXIII

Dr. Hans Peter Herzig is Professor at the EPFL and President of the European Optical Society (EOS). His current research interests include refractive and diffractive micro-optics, nano-scale optics and optical MEMS.
Hans Peter Herzig received his diploma in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1978. From 1978 to 1982 he was a scientist with the Optics Development Department of Kern in Aarau, Switzerland, working in lens design and optical testing. In 1983, he became a graduate research assistant with the Applied Optics Group at the Institute of Microtechnology of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, working in the field of holographic optical elements. In 1987, he received his PhD degree in optics. From 1989 to 2001 he was head of the micro-optics research group in Neuchâtel. From 2002 to 2008 he was a full professor and head of the Applied Optics Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel. Professor Herzig joined the faculty at EPFL in January 2009.

Mihai Adrian Ionescu is an Associate Professor at EPFL, director of the Laboratory of Micro/Nanoelectronic Devices (NANOLAB) and head of the Doctoral School in Microsystems and Microelectronics of EPFL. He is appointed as national representative of Switzerland for the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) and member of the Scientific Committee of CATRENE. Dr. Ionescu is the European Chapter Chair of the ITRS Emerging Research Devices Working Group.

He received the B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania and the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1989 and 1997, respectively. He has held staff and/or visiting positions at LETI-CEA, Grenoble, France, LPCS-ENSERG, Grenoble, France and Stanford University, USA, in 1998 and 1999. He received three Best Paper Awards in international conferences and the Annual Award of the Technical Section of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1994. He served in the ISQED and IEDM conference technical committees in 2003 and 2004 and as Technical Program Committee Chair of ESSDERC in 2006.

Philippe Renaud’s research interests are: microfabrication technologies for MEMS and microfluidics, BioMEMS applications. He received his diploma in physics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (1983) and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Lausanne in 1988. As a postdoctoral researcher, he went to the University of California at Berkeley, USA from 1988 to 1989 and then at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, to develop scanning tunneling microscopes for low-temperature and developed the local STM induced luminescence of III-V semiconductors heterostructures. He also performed measurement of the magnetically induced polarization of the emitted light.

In 1992, he joined the Sensors and Actuators group of the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was involved in the design and the technology of mechanical microsensors and of micro-mirrors for optical switching. In 1993, he was hired as assistant professor at EPFL. In 1997, he was appointed as full professor at EPFL. Since 1998, he is director of the EPFL Center of MicroNanoTechnology (CMI), a large clean room facility with processing equipment for training and scientific experimentation in microelectronic and microfabrication processes.

Sebastian Maerkl is an assistant professor at the Institute of Bioengineering of EPFL. His laboratory is interested in applying state-of-the-art microfluidic technology to relevant problems in systems biology.

After studying biology and chemistry in Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ, USA) in 2001, he obtained his PhD in biochemistry and Molecular biophysics at the California Institute of Technology in 2007 by the supervision of Stephen Quake. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a research associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford University. He holds the 1st place in the Innovator’s challenge of 2005 of the California Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley and Stanford University, as well as the Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Biotechnology or related fields, the best Caltech PhD thesis submitted in a give category.