Expertise in organic and printed electronics (OPE):

• Flexible substrates, encapsulation technologies and metrology (permeation, mechanics)

• Organic, hybrid electronic processing

• Organic and printed photovoltaics

• OLED -displays- lighting

• Wearable sensors, electrochemical

• General OPE know-how

• Public-private partnership projects in EU, Switzerland.

 

Experiences related to printed, flexible, organic electronics:

• International project consortium creation and coordination:

  • With CSEM:  project coordinator Sunflower – FP7 ID: 287594 - ~15Mio Eur, 17 partners; materials, technology, environmental impact for solution-processed, tandem OPV.  2011-2016

  • With Philips Research: project coordinator FlexLED- ID: IST-2001-34215. ~7 Mio Eur, 7 partners; materials and technology for ink-jet printed flexible OLED-2002-2004

 

• Philips Research – Senior Scientist  - Co-developed the optical “calcium test” encapsulation measurement method 

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• Swiss center for electronics and microtechnology (CSEM) a private research and technology company 

  • Activity manager for CSEM’s overall printed electronic project portfolio 

  • Business and technology development senior manager 

  • Section Head-Polymer Optoelectronics 

  • Member of Eu and Swiss national projects including:  OPV, OLED, OTFT, medical diagnostics, consumer wearable devices

 

• Founding member and contributor to the printed electronics IEC Standardization committee TC 119 for Switzerland (2014 to 2017)

 

• Organic and Printed Electronics Association - OE-A

  • Elected Member to the Board of Management of the Association - 2015-2017

  • Member of the Scientific Board for the LOPE-C conference; Chair of the Short Course section 2015-2017

  • Created, led the working group encapsulation within the OE-A from 2010 to 2015

  • Led the printed/organic photovoltaic working group for the roadmap of the OE-A from to 2011 to 2017

  • 2021-present: member editorial board OE-A roadmap whitepaper

 

• Expert evaluator EU commission: 2014 to date

  • Evaluation of projet proposals (funding up to ~5 Mio Eur), including for innovative SMEs, printed and environmentally sustainable electronic techs.

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• Patent application: 9 patent applications in the field of flexible electronics.

 

• Education /Post-doc research:

PhD, Polymer physics, Strasbourg University 1994-1997. 

Guest scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology   1997 -1999

 

• Certification:

Project Management Professional - 2020 – Project Management Institute (PMI) / Credential ID PMP 2774510

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