People
Prof. Christoph Studer, ETH
SwissChips Director
WP9 Lead
Prof. Hua Wang, ETH
WP4 Lead
Prof. Juerg Leuthold, ETH
WP4 Co-lead
external page Dr. David Ruffieux, CSEM, EPFL
WP5 Lead
SwissChips Management and Coordination
Project Management Office
Prof. Christoph Studer, ETH
SwissChips Director
WP9 Lead
Kate Stephens
Events and Administration
Lisette van der Maarel
Finances
Dr. Tracy Ewen
Communication
The Steering Committee (SC) of SwissChips is chaired by the VP of Research (VPF) of ETHZ, Prof. C. Wolfrum, and includes the VP of Integrated and Wireless Systems of CSEM, Dr. A.-S. Porret, and the Provost of EPFL, Prof. J. S. Hesthaven. The SC is responsible for approving the annual budgets and the development/investment plan that is proposed by the Director.
The Infrastructure and Research Board (IRB) is chaired by Prof. A. Burg from EPFL, and includes technical leadership from each of the three involved institutions: CSEM, EPFL, and ETHZ.
The Project Advisory Board (PAB) consists of eminent scientists who provide advice on the long term vision and trends as well as Swiss industry executives that represent the main beneficiaries of the outcomes of the SwissChips initiative.
The PAB consists of the following members (sorted according to last names):
- Dr. Cemal Aydogan, Senior Engineer, Hitachi Energy, Switzerland, and President Semiconductor Ecosytem Industry, Swissmem, Switzerland
- Dr. Evangelos Eleftherirou, CTO, Axelera AI, Switzerland
- Dr. Thomas Ernst, Scientific Director, CEA-Leti, France
- Dr. Barun Dutta, Chief Scientist of Semiconductor Technology and Systems, Imec, Belgium
- Prof. Em. Qiuting Huang, CEO & founder, Advanced Circuit Pursuit AG, Switzerland
- Dr. Paul Muller, Vice President of Development, EM Microelectronic, Switzerland
- Prof. Em. Jan M. Rabaey, CTO of Systems Technology Co-Optimization, Imec, Belgium, and University of California at Berkeley, USA
- Prof. Dr. H. Schmid, Lecturer for Microelectronics and Signal Processing, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Switzerland
- Dr. Adriaan B. Spierings, Leiter Industriesektoren, Swissmem, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Marian Verhelst, Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Dr. Reinhard Völkel, CEO, SUSS MicroOptics SA, Switzerland, and Member, Swissmem, Switzerland