About the Author
Christofer Hierold holds the Chair of Micro- and Nanosystems at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, since April 2002. Prior to that, he spent eleven years with Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies AG, responsible for R&D on microsystems, advanced CMOS processes, memories, nanoelectronics and new materials. His current research work focuses on the evaluation of new materials for MEMS, on advanced microsystems and on nanotransducers.
Professor Hierold holds numerous patents and has published over 20 research articles in peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He serves on the program committees of several scientific conferences such as the IEEE MEMS series.