Christofer Hierold

Christofer Hierold has been a Professor of Micro and Nanosystems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, at ETH Zurich since April 2002.

His research is focused on the evaluation of new materials for MEMS, on advanced microsystems, and on nanotransducers. Christofer Hierold is founding chairman of one of ETH Zurich's inter-departmental competence centers, the Micro and Nano Science Platform and he coordinates the management team of ETH Zurich's cleanroom facility, the FIRST lab. In addition, he is a member of the international steering committees of major conferences in the field (MEMS, TRANSDUCERS, EUROSENSORS), he is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and of IoP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, and he is joint editor of the book series Advanced Micro and Nanosystems (Wiley-VCH). He was the General co-chair of IEEE MEMS 2009 Conference along with Prof. Lina Sarro.

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