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.
Franz-Karl ReinhartOriginaire d'Oberdorf (SO), Franz-Karl Reinhart est né à Bassersdorf (ZH) le 12 juillet 1933. Diplômé ingénieur électricien à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Zurich en 1958, il obtient son doctorat ès sciences techniques à l'Institut d'électronique avancée de l'EPFZ en 1962.
En 1963, il est membre du "Technical Staff" du Laboratoire de recherche en électronique à l'état solide chez Bell, à Murray Hill (New Jersey) aux Etats-Unis. Il s'intéresse à l'optique des ondes guidées, particulièrement à la modulation électro-optique dans les guides d'onde à jonction p-n, aux lasers semiconducteurs à injection et à l'optique intégrée monolithique. Depuis mars 1983, il est professeur ordinaire d'optoélectronique à l'Institut de physique appliquée et, depuis octobre 1987, à l'Institut de micro- et optoélectronique de l'EPFL. Il enseigne dans les domaines de l'optique et de la physique du solide. Il a développé les bases d'un laboratoire d'optoélectronique et de supraconductivité à haute température de transition.
Il s'intéresse principalement à la physique des semiconducteurs, à la supraconductivité et aux applications industrielles. Son activité primaire consiste en la préparation et l'étude de nouveaux matériaux et dispositifs quantiques pour les applications en micro- et optoélectronique.
Daniel OberliDaniel Oberli was born in Switzerland in 1957. After completing his undergraduate education in the Physics department at EPFL he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to enter the graduate program in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1988. His thesis topic was the intersubband dynamics of photo excited carriers in two-dimensional semiconductor structures, for which he developed an original experimental approach based on time-resolved Raman scattering of electronic excitations. From 1988 to 1989, he was a post-doctoral fellow at AT&T Bell laboratories, where he pursued his research interests on the ultra fast time-resolved optical properties of semiconductor microstructures under the leadership of Dr. J. Shah. In 1990, he joined the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich, where he evidenced and studied Fano resonances in the optical excitation spectra of semiconductor quantum wells. Since 1994, he has been in the Institute of Physics of the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL. His main research activities include the electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, in particular quantum wires, quantum wells and dots, Raman scattering by phonons and electronic excitations in nanostructures and the radiative properties of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, including the dynamics of exciton-polaritons and their interactions. He is a member of the American Physical Society.
