Jürgen BruggerI am a Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL I was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. I received a Master in Physical-Electronics and a PhD degree from Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. Research in my laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. My group contributes to the field at the fundamental level as well as in technological development, as demonstrated by the start-ups that spun off from the lab. In our research, key competences are in micro/nanofabrication, additive micro-manufacturing, new materials for MEMS, increasingly for wearable and biomedical applications. Together with my students and colleagues we published over 200 peer-refereed papers and I had the pleasure to supervise over 25 PhD students. Former students and postdocs have been successful in receiving awards and starting their own scientific careers. I am honoured for the appointment in 2016 as Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 my lab was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing.
Fadi Atef BayoudFadi is a strategic management professional with over 20 years of experience. His work concentrates on advising companies and educational institutes on how to adapt to the 21st century complexity and how to overcome its disruptive nature by adopting innovative processes and technologies. Throughout his career, he assumed roles in academia, R&D, product management, marketing and business development, project management, operations and strategic management.
For the last three years, he has been developing advisory solutions for strategic management, where he has advised several CEO’s on how to strategically transform, navigate disruption, and succeed in the future through i) adopting fit-for-purpose strategies and ii) changing the mindsets on how strategic change should be done and by whom.
In addition to his PhD at the EPFL in Engineering (ENAC/TOPO) in 2006, Fadi holds an MBA (2019) at Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK) with specialization in Strategic Management, two master engineering degrees from Greece (1999) and Canada (2002), an Executive Development at INSEAD (2017), and Construction Management at Columbia University (2017).
