HeiQ works tightly together with its Scientific Board. The members all have long industry experience and large international networks to assist HeiQ with in matters ranging from antimicrobial functionality to integration into polymers,
Jens Gobrecht
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Jens studied physics at the technical University Berlin. He earned his Ph.D. at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. Afterwards he did a Post-Doc at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. He later joined the corporate research center of ABB of whom he became the director. In 1993 he became director of the Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI Villigen/Switzerland). In 2004, additionally to his PSI position he became Director of the Institut für Nanotechnische Kunststoff (INKA) -Anwendungen of the University of Applied Sciences Nordwestschweiz. Jens is Inventor or co-Inventor of more then 30 patents.
Clemens Holzer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.mont.
Clemens studied Polymer Engineering at the Montan- University Leoben, Austria, where he earned his Ph.D. He started his career at the Swiss company Huber+Suhner as a polymer expert and soon became a project-engineer in the corporate research laboratory. Later he became head of production and finally head of research and development. During all his years at Huber+Suhner he was engaged in education and held lectures. In 2003 he changed to the University of Applied Sciences Nordwestschweiz and in 2005 he became deputy head of the INKA - Institut für Nanotechnische Kunststoff-Anwendungen. In 2009 he returned to Loeben as head of the Polymer-Processing Institute.
Uwe Pieles
Prof. Dr. Chem.
Uwe studied Chemistry at the Universities Bielefeld and Göttingen. He earned his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for experimental medicine in Göttingen in bioorganic chemistry and biochemistry. After a postdoc at the EMBL in Heidelberg he joined the central research laboratories of Ciba Geigy in Basel. In 1997 he joined Altana where he worked in the pharma research division in the area of biosensors and antisense technology. In 2000 he joined the University of Applied Sciences in Muttenz Switzerland (FHNW) as head of the nanotechnology group. The group is focused on surface/material science and particle technology. Today Uwe is also lecturer for analytical chemistry, nanotechnology and material science at the FHNW, University of Basel and Aprentas.
Peter Franz
Dipl. Ing. ETH
Peter graduated in automatic control technologies at the Federal Technical University of Zurich (ETHZ). His Post graduation was in process engineering. He started his career at Buss AG, Pratteln, as a process engineer for the design of hydrogenation plants and glycerol distillation. He later became R&D manager for the Buss Compounding Technology. He published about 20 patents and held more than 100 presentations all over the world. For 12 years he headed the expert committee for plastics compounding of the German Engineers Association (VDI-K) and served as a part-time teacher at the Fachhochschule Aargau at Brugg-Windisch. Today he works with Buss AG as Senior Technology Expert.
Martin Loessner
Prof. Dr.
Martin studied biology at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. After his master in Biology in Michigan, USA he earned his Ph.D. at the Technical University München in Freising. He continued his career as a Postdoc at the Institute for Microbiology of TU München. After visits at the University of Nottingham, England and the Ben-Gurion-University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, he received his habilitation degree for lecturing in microbiology at the TU München. A research sojourns at the Department for Molecular- and Cell Biology at the University of California in Berkeley was followed in 2003 by accepting the Chair of Food Microbiology at the Institute of Food Science and Nutrition of the ETH Zurich.
Hendrik Tevaearai
Ass. Prof. Dr. med., eMBA HSG
Hendrik is a general and cardiovascular surgeon trained in Lausanne and Berne, Switzerland. He performed his clinical and laboratory research in these cities as well as at Duke university, NC, USA. He is now Head of R&D at the University hospital in Berne, Switzerland and collaborates with several national and international institutes, universities and companies. Hendrik contributed to more than 120 scientific publications, raised several public and private grants and was honoured with several national and international awards. Hendrik is especially interested by technology transfer and owns 4 patents. He recently graduated as Executive MBA at the University of St-Gallen, Switzerland.
A.U. Dan Daniels
Prof. Ph.D.
A.U. Dan Daniels is Prof. for Experimental Surgery, University of Basel Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Laboratory for Orthopedic Biomechanics. He was trained in materials science (BS Ceramic Engineering, PhD Metallurgy) and has spent most of his career in medical and surgical materials and implant r&d. He is a founding member of the Society for Biomaterials (USA) and an assistant editor of its Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Prof. Daniels is also an associate member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a licensed professional engineer (Manufacturing Engineering, California, USA). He holds 7 US patents and has another one pending.
His professional publications include 15 book chapters, 67 journal articles and 97 meeting abstracts. His current special areas of interest are developing new micro-nano calorimetric methods to evaluate the dynamic response of living cells to materials, and new methods for mm to nm scale measurement of mechanical properties of body tissues and related engineering materials.
