Continued project support and technical guidance for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS) project. Scientific lead for ESA project "GLIMPSE" (A Geological Lunar In-Situ Mapper and Prospector For Surface Exploration) for legged, robotic resource scouting on the moon. Teaching classes within the UZH astrobiology program.

Science and development in space biology and microgravity research. Project acquisition. Teaching classes and laboratory courses in physics, Python programming, cell biology, and material science. Supervision of project-, bachelor- and master's theses.

Continued project support and technical guidance for NASA-JPL's Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS) project as a subcontractor within the Chemical Analysis & Life Detection Group. Brassboard development, subsystems maturation, and technology readiness level advancement of components for next-generation life-detection instruments. The work was performed remotely from Switzerland under a contract with NASA-JPL and the University of Zurich's Space Hub.

Designed, built, and tested remotely-controlled instrument suites as part of the Chemical Analysis & Life Detection Group. Lead engineer for a subcritical water extractor and a capillary electrophoresis system for the detection of biosignatures on potential future planetary missions to Mars and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Other responsibilities: Writing of grant applications, hiring and supervision of nine students and interns, responsible for the In-situ Instruments lab. Participated in multiple simulated mission field-trips to the Atacama Desert, Chile, and Barrow, Alaska.

Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Peter A. Willis in JPL's Micro Devices Laboratory in the Instruments and Science Data Systems Division. Reponsible for the development of an instrument suite for in-situ analysis of prebiotic compounds on Mars, Europa, Enceladus, and other alien worlds.

Scientific advisor and rocketry & aeronautics consultant for Ridley Scott's CBS All Access TV show "Strange Angel", where I worked with the staff towards incorporating scientifically accurate dialogue and visuals.

Developed an integrated, multiplexed, label-free, remotely-controlled, and portable optical biosensor platform to detect and monitor the interaction, presence, and concentration of (bio)molecules. Lead in systems design, optics, mechanics, electronics, and microfluidics. Supervision and mentoring of six graduate students and three Master's Theses.

Responsible for R&D engineering efforts in the field of waveguide grating based biosensors. Task Manager in a European FP7 project. Principal technical investigator of a research project funded by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI).

Supported the development, testing, and commercialization of an integrated optical biosensor platform with commercial partner Dynetix AG.

Awardee of NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship for Proposal "Astrobiology Platform for In-Situ Analysis of Prebiotic Compounds on Mars, Icy Worlds and beyond". Reseach performed at NASA JPL.

In Affiliation with Postdoc Position at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Development of an integrated, multiplexed, label-free, remotely-controlled, and portable optical biosensor platform to detect and monitor the interaction, presence, and concentration of (bio)molecules. Lead in systems design, optics, mechanics, electronics and microfluidics.
Thesis: "Theory, Development and Validation of a Novel Label- Free Waveguide Grating based Biosensor System". Diss-Nr. 22799, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Janos Vörös. In collaboration with CSEM Landquart and Optics Balzers AG.

Nanophysics aims to unravel the physical principles that are unique to nano-sized objects and processes occurring specifically at the nanometer scale. Examples are quantum phenomena in quantum dots, the microscopy and manipulation of single atoms, atomic assemblies and molecules.

Master's Thesis at UC Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Research on an autonomous, guided small scale rocket with gimbaled thrust and MEMS 6 DoF inertial measurement unit.

Interdisciplinary curriculum covering the fundamentals of physics, molecular biology, and chemistry. All areas of nanoscience have in common that the boundaries between classical disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and physics vanish at the nanometer scale.

Three year research grant received for proposal "Astrobiology Platform for In-Situ Analysis of Prebiotic Compounds on Mars, Icy Worlds and beyond". Advisor: Dr. P.A. Willis, exectuted at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. The competitive NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides early-career and more senior scientists the opportunity to partake in NASA's mission.

Research grant for two years for the project aTORCH (active optical resonator chip), an innovative concept for next-generation, high sensitivity label-free biosensors. Project partners were CSEM SA, NTB Interstate University of Technology Buchs, and industrial partners Optics Balers AG and Dynetix AG. My role was initiator and technical PI, Prof. M. Michler (NTB) was the management PI.

Travel grant to pursue my Master's Thesis as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Berkeley Sensors & Actuators Center (BSAC), at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation, 2013
  Elsevier, 3rd Int. Conf. on Bio-Sens. Technology, Spain.

• Best Poster Award, 2008
  INASCON, Arhus, Denmark.