Current Position

• Deputy Director Empa
• Head of Department "Engineering Sciences"
• Head of Research Focus Area "Built Environment" (jointly with Mateusz Wyrzykoswski)
• Strategic Responsibilty for NEST

Area of Expertise

Energy-efficient Buildings, Knowledge and Technology Transfer for the Construction Sector

 
Membership in National and International Committees

• Advisory Board "Energy" Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing (BAM), Germany, head of Advisory Board
• Advisory Board Lucerne University of Applied Science (HSLU), Department of Engineering and Architecture
• Expert Committee "Energy" Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (sia), Vice-President
• International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), Former President (2009-2012)
• European Network of Building Research Institutes (ENBRI), Member of the Board
• Energy Cluster Switzerland, Vice President of the Board
• American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Curriculum Vitae

• Professional Career
  • 2002 – present Empa, Head of Department "Engineering Sciences"
  • 2000 – 2001 Empa, Member of the Directorate of Empa Dübendorf
  • 1995 – 2000 Empa, Head of the Laboratory for Corrosion and Surface Protection
  • 1990 – 1995 Empa, Head of the Group for Plasma-Source Mass Spectrometry
  • 1989 – 1990 Indiana University, Postdoc funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with Prof. Dr. G. M. Hieftje, Department of Chemistry, "Tandem-Source Plasma Mass Spectrometry"

• Education
  • 2002 – 2004 EMBA at University of St Gall
  • 1985 – 1989 PhD in Chemistry at ETH Zurich with Prof. Dr. B. Magyar "Fundamentals, Mechanism and Application of the Adsorption Polarography of Molybdenum(VI)"
  • 1979 – 1984 Diploma in Chemistry at ETH Zurch