Prof. Niels Quack

Niels Quack is Associate Professor and Director of the Research and Prototype Foundry at the University of Sydney. He received the M. Sc. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2005, and the Dr. Sc. degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland, in 2010.

Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Niels was from 2015 to 2021 Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, and from 2011 to 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2014 to 2015 he was Senior MEMS Engineer with sercalo Microtechnology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Research interests include Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems, with an emphasis on Diamond Photonics and Silicon Photonic MEMS. He is Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), served as General Chair of the IEEE OMN 2018, General Chair of the Symposium Latsis 2019, Organizing Committee Member of Transducers 2019. He serves as Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE MEMS, ECOC and SPIE OPTO. He is senior member of IEEE, member of OSA and lifetime member of SPIE, and he has authored and co-authored more than 150 papers in leading technical journals and conferences.