Fields of expertise
Integrated Transducers
Photonic Micro- & Nanosystems
Micro- and Nanofabrication
Photonic MEMS
Integrated Photonics
Diamond Photonics
Photonic Switches
Silicon Photonics
Optical MEMS
Heterogeneous Integration
Tunable Optical Microsystems
Microspectrometers
Mid-Infrared Photonics
MicroLIDAR
Biography
Prof. Dr. Niels Quack received the M.Sc. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2005, and the Dr.Sc. degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, he was Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar with the Integrated Photonics Laboratory, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2014 to 2015, he was Senior MEMS Engineer with Sercalo Microtechnology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is currently an SNSF Assistant Professor with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers in leading technical journals and conferences. His 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) and served as General Chair of the IEEE OMN 2018 and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of The Optical Society (OSA) and life member of SPIE.
Awards and Grants
2020 - Outstanding Paper Award nature.com/micronano/
2015 - IEEE Senior Member
2015 - SNSF Professorship
2015 - Best Poster Award, Photonics for Disaggregated Data Centers, OIDA, Los Angeles, USA (co-authored)
2015 - OFC Top Scored Paper, Los Angeles, USA (co-authored, highlighted in OFC press release and awarded as Tingye Li Innovation Prize)
2014 - OFC Top Scored Paper, San Francisco, USA (co-authored)
2013 - NMC Travel Award, Stanford, USA
2013 - IEEE MEMS Outstanding Paper Award, Taipei, Taiwan (co-authored)
2012 - CIS User Grant, 2012, Stanford, USA
2005 - Prix de la Commune d'Ecublens, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004 - SSBE, Max Anliker Memorial Poster Award, Zürich, Switzerland
2000 - VEGR Best Matura Project Award, Zürich, Switzerland