Board of Directors
Our management and board members have many years of experience and success in Heliotis’s core competence, in optical system integration, product development and in executive management.
Robert Grüter
Robert Grüter is an experienced banking and investment expert with strong roots in Central Switzerland. He currently is vice president at Crédit Suisse Private Banking in Lucerne. Prior to joining Crédit Suisse he held management positions at the Valiant Private Bank and the Lucerne Regiobank. He serves as a board member of various startup and investment companies, notably also of Zentronica AG, with the mission of fostering and developing high-tech startup companies in Central Switzerland. Mr. Grüter is also active as a board member of foundation councils serving the public good. In particular, he has been board member and treasurer of the influential “Albert Koechlin Stiftung” since 1998.
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Prof. Dr. Peter Seitz Peter Seitz received his M.Sc. degree in experimental physics in 1980 from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1984 he obtained his Ph.D. degree from ETH for mathematical and applied research work in the domain of computer assisted X-ray tomography with incomplete data at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. 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, doing applied research in optics and in image processing. In 1987 he joined the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, where heformed the Image Sensing research group. Since 1997 he has been working for CSEM, as a group leader and as head of CSEM's Photonics division in Zurich. Today, he is CSEM's vice president for nanomedicine, in charge of the Research Center for Nanomedicine in Landquart, Switzerland. Since 1998 he has also been a professor of optoelectronics at the Institute for Microtechnology of the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Since 2005 he has been chairman of the board of the company Heliotis Inc., Zurich. Peter Seitz has authored and co-authored about 180 publications in the fields of applied optics, semiconductor image sensing, machine vision, 3D range imaging with time-of-flight and optical coherence tomography and optical microsystems engineering. He holds 30 patents, and he has won 20 national and international awards together with his teams, of which the most prestigious is the IST Grand Prize 2004 of the European Commission. During 1998-2004, he has been Secretary General of the European Optical Society EOS, and he is still serving as an EOS board member and delegate for European affairs. He is also a member of the Board of Stakeholders in European Photonics, and he is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Sensors.
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Dr. Alexander Stuck Dr. Alexander Stuck is heading the Division Functional Coatings of CSEM in Basel. He is an expert in nano-optics and brings a track record of successful collaboration with industry leaders in brand protection and optical microsystems. Before joining CSEM he headed the development and production of DVD-recorders and managed a successful turnaround of a microtechnology company as CEO. He also worked as a project leader and industry consultant for larger technological companies. Dr. Alexander Stuck has a successful academic track record in optics and nanotechnology and received the first research award by the Swiss Physical Society (SPG-Preis) in 1991, sponsored by IBM, for his work on nano-technology and holography. |
