Person Peter Seitz

Peter Seitz is a Professor Emeritus of Optoelectronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He received his M.Sc. degree in experimental physics in 1980 from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and in 1984, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from ETH for research work on X-ray Computer Tomography at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. From 1984 to 1987, he was a staff member at the RCA research laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, (David Sarnoff Research Center) and in Zurich, Switzerland, performing applied research in optics and image processing. In 1987, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, where he created and led the Image Sensing research group. From 1997 to 2012, he was working for CSEM, first as a group leader and then as the head of CSEM’s Photonics division in Zurich. From 2006 to 2011, he was CSEM’s Vice President Nanomedicine, building and heading the Research Center for Nanomedicine in Landquart, Switzerland. Since 1998, he has also been a professor of Optoelectronics at the Institute for Microtechnology of the University of Neuchˆatel, Switzerland, and in 2009, he transferred as an adjunct professor to EPFL. He was the Managing Director of the ETH Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, concurrently building and heading the Hamamatsu Photonics Europe Innovation Center. Peter Seitz has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications in the fields of applied optics, semiconductor image sensing, machine vision, optical metrology, and in the MedTech domain. He holds 75 patents, and he has won more than 20 national and international awards together with his teams, of which the most prestigious is the IST Grand Prize 2004 of the European Commission. He is a Fellow of the European Optical Society (EOS), the Vice President of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), and the Vice President of the European PPP Photonics21. Mark Eisenegger is a full professor in the Department of Communication