Introduction of Core Expert Team

Prof. Benoît Dubuis(Switzerland)

President of Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences

Chairman of the Inartis Innovation Foundation in Switzerland

Dean of SSIAT

Academician and President of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). Member and President of Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, International Consultant of the German Academy of Engineering. Professor at the University of Geneva(UNIGE), founder and First dean of the School of Life Sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Former Director of Campus Biotech Geneva and Eclosion Seed Capital Fund, founder of the several companies, and chairman of the In artis Foundation in Switzerland. He has over 30 years of international experience in both academia and industry.

Prof. Jianhua Zhang

Vice President of Shanghai University

Principal Investigator of SSIAT

Director of the Key Laboratory of New Display Technology and Application Integration of the Ministry of Education, Member of the Eighth Mechanical Engineering Discipline Review Group of the Degree Review Committee of the State Council, Chairman of the Beijing Executive Committee of the Society for International Displays (SID), and Editor-in-Chief of Moore and More.

Prof. Charles Lawrie

Professor of University of the Basque Country, Spain

Principal Investigatorof SSIAT

Ikerbasque Research Professor. Director of Oncology Research, Biodonostia Institute, San Sebastian, Spain. Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. Marie Curie Researcher Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. Founder of Indicate Solutions. Leading experts on cancer microfluidic chip rapid detection technology.

Prof. Lei Zhang

Professor of Shanghai University

Executive Dean of SSIAT

Executive Dean, Professor of Sino-Swiss Institute of Advanced Technology (SSIAT) at Shanghai University. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology & Biophysics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 2012. Since then, he has worked in R&D and Innovation departments of Bayer with increasing responsibility and was selected as a Bayer Science Fellow in 2021. Currently he also serves as the Executive Vice President of Chinese Association of Life Science in Switzerland, and healthcare advisor to Great Zurich Area. He has participated in the creation of multiple biotechnology startups, and holds publications/patents covering a wide range of therapeutics and in vitro diagnostics. At SSIAT, Prof. Lei Zhang and his team focus on R&D of biosensor, biochip and smart biomaterials by interdisciplinary approach, specially between microelectronics and life science. Prof. Lei Zhang is a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).