Dr. Samuel Sonderegger, CEO & co-founder

Samuel has 4 years experience in the design and development of ultrafast SEM technology. He studied at EPFL and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) and obtained a MS of Physics from EPFL after a diploma work on the optical properties of semiconductors conducted at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (Russia). During his PhD at EPFL, he codeveloped Attolight's 4D SEM and used this technique to obtain results on optical properties of nitride based structures.

Dr. Jean Berney, CTO & co-founder

Jean came to Attolight from the Laboratory of Quantum Opto-electronics of Prof. Benoît Deveaud at EPFL. He is an expert in ultrafast optics and semiconductor technologies. He has also a lot of experience in measurement automation and user interface programming. He studied at EPFL, University of Waterloo (Canada), received a MS in Physics in 2002 and a PhD in Photonics from EPFL in 2007.

Dr. Jean-Daniel Ganière, President

Jean-Daniel has 30 years of experience in electron microscopy, optics, ultrafast spectroscopy and semiconductors. He is the inventor of the picosecond time-resolved cathodoluminescence, the unique breakthrough technology upon which Attolight's products are based. He works at EPFL in the group of Prof. B. Deveaud and leads the picosecond spectroscopy laboratory. He is the author of more than 120 scientific publications.

Prof. Benoît Deveaud-Plédran

Benoît is a world-renowned scientist, making significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor optical properties. In 1986 he joined the team of Daniel Chemla in Bell Laboratories developing the first luminescence set-up with a temporal resolution better than 1 picosecond. Since 1993 he is appointed professor of Physics at EPFL. His research team studies the physics of ultrafast processes in semiconductor micro- and nanostructures, taking an active part in the National Center of Competence in Research Quantum Photonics, of which he is the Director. He has been the director of the Institute of Quantum Photonic and Electronics since 1998.

Prof. Nicolas Grandjean

Nicolas' research is focused on the physical properties of nitride based nanostructures and the realization of short-wavelength light emitters and UV detectors. In 2004, he has been appointed 'Tenure-Track' Assistant Professor at EPFL. At present, he is the director of the Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics. He was awarded the Sandoz Family Foundation grant for Academic Promotion. He is author of more than 230 publications in international journals, 4 book chapters and holds 4 patents.

Sandra Pochon, Business Development Consultant

Sandra is Project Officer at the National Center of Competence in Research Quantum Photonics. She holds an executive MBA in Management of Technology and has 10 years of industry experience in project management.