Program Plenary Speakers Preliminary Program << Back		Nico F. de Rooij - Plenary Abstract Nico de Rooij is Professor and Director of the Institute of Microengineering of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) as well as Head of the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory (SAMLAB) of the same Institute. He is also Vice-President of the CSEM SA, where he is Head of the Microsystems Technology Division. His research activities include the design, micro fabrication and application of miniaturized silicon based sensors, actuators, and microsystems. He authored and co-authored over 300 published journal papers. Nico de Rooij received a M.Sc. degree in physical chemistry from the State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1975, and a Ph.D. degree from the Twente University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1978. From 1978 to 1982, he worked at the Research and Development Department of Cordis Europa N.V., The Netherlands. In 1982, he joined the Institute of Microtechnology of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (IMT Uni-NE), as professor and head of the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory. Since October 1990 till October 1996 and again from October 2002 until June 2008, he has been the director of the IMT UNI-NE. He lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ), and since 1989, he has been a part-time professor at the EPFL. He has been appointed Vice-President of CSEM SA in February 2008 and heads the newly created Microsystems Technology Division of CSEM SA, which started its activities in April 2008. Since January 2009, he has also been appointed Director of EPFL's Institute of Microengineering, following the transfer of the IMT Uni-NE to the EPFL. Dr. de Rooij was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004. In 2007 he was the recipient of the IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Gold Medal "for pioneering contributions to microsystem technology and effective transfer into industrial products and applications" He received the Schlumberger Stichting Fund Prize in 1992. He was awarded a Visiting Investigatorship Program (VIP) in MEMS/NEMS Systems by the A*STAR Science and Engineering Council (SERC), Singapore, hosted by SIMTech, for the period 2005-2008. Dr. de Rooij is Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his scientific work and Individual Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences in recognition of his activities in the field of Microsystems. Dr. de Rooij is (or was) Member of numerous international steering committees of conference series as well as technical paper review panels including the steering committee of the International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and of Eurosensors. He acted as European Program Chairman of Transducers '87 and General Chairman of Transducers '89, Montreux, Switzerland.

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