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Yves Perriard
Yves Perriard was born in Lausanne in 1965. He received the M. Sc. in Microengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL) in 1989 and the Ph D. degree in 1992. Co-founder of Micro-Beam SA, he was CEO of this company involved in high precision electric drive. Senior lecturer from 1998 and professor since 2003, he is currently director of Laboratory of Integrated Actuators. His research interests are in the field of new actuator design and associated electronic devices. In 2009, he is appointed Vice-Director of the Microengineering Institute in Neuchâtel until 2011. In 2013 the Federal Council has named him the the CTI commission in Bern. In 2014 he is appointed guest professor at Zhejiang University in China. In 2017, the lab is granted by the Werner Siemens Foundation of an amount of 12 millions CHF in order to set up a new Center for Artificial Muscules. Since 2018, he is Expert with Innosuisse, the new Swiss Innovation Agency. http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=V2onuO8AAAAJ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-12-million-franc-donation-to-create-a-center-for/
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
2014 Associate Professor at the Institut des Matériaux, EPFL
2008 Assistant Professor Tenure Track at the Institut des Matériaux, EPFL
2009 Habilitation in Physics, Technische Universität München
2005-2010 Marie Curie Excellence Grant Team Leader at Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, on leave from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France)
2004-2005 Visiting Scientist at the California Institute of Technology, on leave from CNRS; Senior Scientist and co-founder of Aonex Technologies (a startup company for large area layer transfer of InP and Ge on foreign substrates for the main application of multi-junction solar cells)
2003 Permanent Research Fellow at CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology
Study of wafer bonding and hydrogen-induced exfoliation processes for integration of mismatched materials in views of photovoltaic applications
Sponsor: Professor Harry A. Atwater
1998-2001 PhD in Materials Science, Ecole Polytechnique
Study of polymorphous silicon: growth mechanisms, optical and structural properties. Application to Solar Cells and Thin Film Transistors
Advisor: Pere Roca i Cabarrocas
1997-1998 Diplôme dEtudes Approfondis (D.E.A.) in Materials Science at Université Paris XI, France .
1993-1997 BA in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona
Rolf Gruetter
Awards:
1999 Young Investigator Award Plenary Lectureship
, International Society for Neurochemistry
2011 Fellow
, ESMRMB
2011 Teaching Award
, Section Sciences de la Vie, EPFL
Enrico Colla
Dr. Enrico Colla received his diploma in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) in 1982. From 1982 to 1987 he worked on phase transitions and multi critical points in incommensurate systems at the Institute of Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich and obtained the PhD title - Dr. sc. nat. ETHZ - and awarded with the Silver medal of ETHZ (for his thesis work). Since 1990 he is employed at the Ceramics Laboratory, Materials Department, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL. His work on low-loss dielectric ceramics clarified the influence of structural phase transitions in non-ferroelectric complex perovskites for microwave applications on the temperature dependence of the relative permittivity. Between 1994 and 2003 he contributed to the understanding of switching mechanism and fatigue effects in ferroelectric thin films with a number of works based on Piezoelectric Atomic Force Microscopy (PFM) combined with innovative experimental approaches. The most recent areas of interest concern the effect of high electric field application on ferroelectric thin films with PFM and the development of high performance piezoelectric diskbender actuators. During the last 10 years he participated or directed several Swiss and European projects.
Most relevant publications:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4305-2010