SEMICON Europa 2016

Peter Seitz
Adjunct professor of optoelectronics
ETH Zurich, ieLab - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab


Peter Seitz received his M.Sc. degree in experimental physics and his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering both from ETH. From 1984 to 1987 he was a staff member of 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 (PSI), where he created and led the Image Sensing research group. From 1997 to 2012 he worked for CSEM, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, first as a group leader and then as Vice President Photonics, heading CSEM’s photonics division. From 2006 to 2011, he was CSEM’s Vice President Nanomedicine.
Since 2012 Peter Seitz has been concurrently head of the Hamamatsu Photonics Innovation Center Europe, adjunct professor of optoelectronics at EPFL, and innovation sherpa at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab (ieLab) of ETH Zurich.

Peter Seitz has authored and co-authored about 200 publications in the fields of applied optics, semiconductor image sensing, machine vision, optical metrology and in the MedTech domain. He holds 50 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, member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW, and he is a member of the Executive Board of the ETP Photonics21, chairing the workgroup on sensors, metrology and security.


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