has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications in the fields of applied optics, semiconductor image sensing, machine vision, optical metrology, and in the MedTech domain. He holds 75 patents, and he has won more than 20 national and international awards together with his teams, of which the most prestigious is the IST Grand Prize 2004 of the European Commission. He is a Fellow of the European Optical Society (EOS), the Vice President of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), and the Vice President of the European