About Me
After receiving a MSc in Electrical and Electronical Engineering from EPFL in 2010 I joined AQUA in Summer 2010 in pursue of a PhD, awarded 2016 for the thesis titled ‘Challenges and Solutions to Next-Generation Single-Photon Imagers’. The work continues with the support of various collaborations using our group’s sensors and the system integration of more recent imagers.
Experience
Post-doctoral research with the AQUA group at TU Delft and EPFL
Development of a high-speed random number generator using SPADs as entropy source and integrated extractor. Continuation of my research on SPAD camera systems and support of camera users.
Doctoral studies in the AQUA group at EPFL
Research on Single Photon Avalanche Diode Arrays (SPAD Arrays) and imagers in standard CMOS. Chip design and full system architecture (PCB, FPGA, software) for imaging systems based on SPADs. Thesis “Challenges and Solutions to Next-Generation Single-Photon Imagers” accepted without reserve.
Master (MSc) in electrical and electronic engineering
Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. Bachelor (BSc) in three years including one year at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; GPA: 5.06/6. Master (MSc) in two years with specialization in electronics and microelectronics; GPA: 5.57/6.
Main publications
SwissSPAD - high resolution gated SPAD image sensor
Optics Express - 2014LinoSPAD - Linear SPAD Camera with FPGA-Based TDCs
Instruments - 2017Thesis
EPFL - 2016Languages
German - native
English - fluent
French - fluent
Skills
- Electronic development
- Chip design - Cadence - ModelsimPCB design - Kicad - Altium -EagleFPGA design - Xilinx ISE / Vivado - Altera (Intel) QuartusMicrocontroller - Atmel (Microchip)
- Prototyping
- 3D printingArduinoRaspberry PiHome fabrication
- Programming & Systems
- C++ (Graphical, Qt) - C (microcontroller, real-time) - GitVHDL - Matlab / Octave - GnuplotLinux - Desktop and server administration