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Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal data

 

Nationality: Swiss

e-mail: thomas.hinderling@csem.ch

Telephone, business: +41 32 720 56 57

 

Professional title: Masters degree in nuclear physics, PhD in biomedical engineering

 

Current professional activity: CEO, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, CSEM SA

 

Education

 

1967-1973 Studies at the university of Zurich, master in nuclear physics

 

1974 Postgraduate course in molecular biology

 

1975-1978 PhD at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Professional career

 

1978-1979 NASA, U.S.A. Houston, Texas and San Francisco (Ames Research Center), California. In charge of a NASA project to measure bone density of astronauts in zero gravity conditions

 

1980-1990 Schindler Aufzüge AG, Ebikon, Switzerland. In charge of R&D department of Schindler Schweiz AG.

 

1990-1995 Landis & Gyr Energy Management AG, Zug, Switzerland. Worldwide responsibility for R&D.

 

1995-1997 Landis & Gyr Energy Asia Pacific Management Inc., Hong Kong. CTO region Asia / Pacific. Responsible for R&D, marketing and production of all L&G divisions in Asia. Build-up of business in Asia, mainly in China, India, South Korea and Australia.

 

Since April 1997 C.E.O. of CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique), CH-Neuchâtel, www.csem.ch

 

July 1998 Nominated "Professeur titulaire" at the EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-Lausanne

 

Co-Founder of about twenty societies: Semtech, CSM Instruments, Uditis, Avalon, Colibrys, Zentronica, Spectrosolutions, Photonfocus, Heliotis, Xemtec, ST Dienst, Posic, Space X, Arrayon, Adamant Technologies, Innobridge, Jade, CSEM UAE etc.

 

Holder of 4 patents.

 

International business experiences in Switzerland, in the U.S.A. and in Asia (China, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc.)

CSEM provides wireless sensor network technology optimised for energy autonomy and for ease of deployment. Through hardware/software co-design CSEM's WiseNET technology achieves autonomy of 30 times more than standard systems. WiseMAC is a self-configuring, self-healing mesh networking protocol optimised for ad hoc WSN networks. Icycom is an ultra low power WSN node on a chip, with 1V/2mA operation compatible with energy harvesting. Applications include agriculture, civil engineering and environmental monitoring. At IDTechEx CSEM will be demonstrating an agricultural application using an energy harvesting source.