ZMT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer / Computational Scientist
Simone studied astrophysics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, earning the BSc in Physics and the MSc in Astrophysics and Space Physics. He completed the PhD (Dr.sc.nat.) in Computational Astrophysics at the University of Zurich in 2011, working on hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation and supermassive black hole evolution. He later worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then as senior researcher in Computer-Assisted Paleo anthropology, also at the University of Zurich, where he developed agent-based models of human populations.
Simone joined ZMT in December 2018 to work mainly on Sim4Life development.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
Myles Capstick was born in 1965 in the north west of England. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wales in Bangor in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering Science at the University of Wales, Bangor in 1990.
He moved to The University of York, Department of Electronics in 1996, where he was first lecturer and latterly senior lecturer.
In May of 2006 Myles joined the IT'IS Foundation, where he applies his expertise across the wide range of areas encompassing RF, microwave and mm-wave systems, circuits, antennas and measurements to the research of the Foundation in the areas of biological interactions, communications, EMC and dosimetry.
In 2006, he co-founded Zurich MedTech for which he serves as Chief Technology Officer.
It was during his school years that Myles developed his interest in RF electronics and was also introduced to RF and audio measurements and good measurement techniques / practice within the Laboratories of Angus McKenzie Facilities in London where he worked during several summer holidays. His fascination with biomolecular and biological systems was developed during his PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Ron Pethig in the University of Wales. This was further nurtured during the periods of his research at the MD Anderson Cancer Hospital in Houston, Texas. The research was on the development of an electron spin resonance spectrometer for biomolecular applications marrying the RF and microwave circuit design with the biological application.
Since that time he has gained a broad and wide ranging experience of analogue, RF, microwave and mm-wave design of systems, subsystems, circuits, filters and antennas. He has wide experience of research and the management of research in large multinational consortia and with industry. He has also undertaken industry led consultancy for training and product development and analysis.
Furthermore, he has experience of the design and manufacture of RF equipment for use in dosimetry and in particular the equipment used in all the human volunteer trials within the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme of the UK Department of Health as well as studies using human phantoms. Other work has focused on the design of miniature antennas for portable wireless equipment and in particular the interaction with and changes in performance associated with the interaction with the body.
He also designed and developed the system concept and all the RF / microwave hardware of both payload and ground station for a stratospheric communications trial which was successfully held at the Swedish Space Corporation at ESRANGE, Kiruna as part of the EU IST project Capanina in August 2005.
In 1996, he joined the Bioelectromagnetics/EMC Group (BIOEM/EMC) at ETH Zurich where he widened his experience in numerical simulation techniques using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, applied to Electromagnetics. From 1998 to 2002, Nik Chavannes was a Graduate Research Assistant within the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics (IFH) as well as the Laboratory for Integrated Systems (IIS), both located at ETH Zurich. His PhD thesis was focused on the development of enhanced FDTD local refinement techniques and their application to numerical near-field analysis, antennas and improved modeling capabilities in general.
In early 2002, he joined SPEAG as Director of Software where he is responsible for the software R&D activities, focusing mainly on innovations and implementations for SPEAG's major products, namely SEMCAD X as well as the experimental near-field scanners DASY and the novel cSAR3D product line. In addition, he is involved in various projects within the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT'IS), Switzerland, related to EM near- and far-field assessment as well as dosimetry, using the means of Computational Electromagnetics. At IT'IS, he is leading the project POSEIDON which involves the extension and improvement of the advanced electromagnetic simulation platform SEMCAD towards uWave simulation. Currently Nik also serves as the Head of Software at ZurichMedTech, leading the software development related activities for the Sim4Life platform.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Member of the Board
Henrich, born in 1955, has worked for SPEAG (and other Zurich43 organizations) since its inception in 1994 in various positions as internal and external adviser for corporate, legal, and financial matters. Since January 2008, he has served as a non-executive director and chairs the board meetings of ZMT.
Henrich received his MBA (Dipl.Kfm) in 1981 from Cologne University in 1981 and is a qualified Swiss public accountant (dipl. Wirtschaftsprüfer). Until 2017 Henrich headed the tax and treasury functions of Senior plc, an international manufacturing group quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Before he joined Senior in 1992, Henrich worked in the audit and business advisory divisions of Arthur Andersen in Germany and Switzerland. Today, Henrich serves as non executive board member of various companies in Switzerland, one of which is the Zuercher Kantonalbank, one of the major banks in Switzerland.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President of the Board, ICEO
- President of the Board, Interim Chief Executive Officier / Executive Board
Professor Niels Kuster received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). Between 1993 and 1999, he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of ETHZ and in 2001, he was awarded Titular Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETHZ.
In 1999 until now, he has served as the founding Director of the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT'IS), Switzerland.
During his career he has held invited professorships at the Electromagnetics Laboratory of Motorola, Inc, Florida, and at the Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan in 1998. In 2010, he initiated the sister institute IT'IS USA, a non-profit research unit incorporated in Maryland, USA.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Head of Product Safety and Regulation
His main research interests include experimental and numerical dosimetry in bio-electromagnetics, classical electromagnetic compatibility, near-field sensor, radio-frequency circuit, and antenna design, optics as well as bio-medical applications thereof. Sven is author and co-author of numerous journal and conference papers as well as book chapters and serves as a scientific reviewer for PMB, RR, JBEMS and various T-IEEE journals.
Niels Kuster founded the following spin-off companies with the objective to turn the most promising research results into high-quality products, to create jobs and to offer the involved researchers the opportunity to further refine and commercially exploit their results:
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Head of Global Business Development of Z43 Alliance
- Head of Global Business Development Zurich43 Alliance
Michael was co-founder and CEO of Miromico AG (2001 - 2005), a start-up company spun off from the Integrated Systems Laboratory of the ETH Zurich, doing business in R&D of miniaturized medical devices and contract application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design. In 2005, he joined SPEAG and IT'IS to establish and develop the new medical technology division, and, in 2007, he became Managing Director of ZMT. Before returning to Z43 in 2016 to lead business development at ZMT, Michael served as CEO of NeMoDevice AG (2012 - 2016), a Zurich-based medical device company that provides innovative solutions for monitoring cerebral blood flow and brain tissue oxygenation in the field of neurointensive medicine.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
For another 3 years Jacqueline then helped two start-up companies organize their administration and accounting. In 2000 she joined SPEAG as Head of Finance and Administration. Since 2007, she also is responsible for the finances at ZMT.
Sylvain completed his engineering degree in Mathematics and Mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique Paris, France) in 2005, his M.Sc. degree in Fluid Mechanics at the Université Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France) in 2005 and his PhD degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK) in 2008.
Sylvain worked for 4 years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich, developing novel computational methods and algorithms in a high-performance computing environment. He then joined ASCOMP AG, an ETHZ spinoff company specializing in computational fluid dynamics solutions. As head of research there, his role was to initiate and develop research projects in collaboration with universities and research institutes, as well as consultancy projects for industry.
Sylvain joined ZMT in August 2015 as Senior Software Engineer for Computational Life Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Head of Production
- Member of the Board of Directors