Solar Islands (Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon, USA 2008)

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 is a private non-profit Swiss research organization and acts as a technology provider for the industrial sector. As a recognized RTO, CSEM develops innovative technology platforms and offers services from contract R&D to development of solutions for applications including medical, transport, energy, security, life sciences, and telecom. CSEM has been active in the wearable technology domain for 20+ years and its medical device technology is certified ISO 13485. It has long-term and widespread competencies in the development of low-power wireless sensors for human-monitoring applications comprising sensor electronics, signal processing and advanced feature extraction at the sensor level or in the cloud, big data analysis, and machine learning.