Samuel Sonderegger PhD

September 6, 2017
|In Executive Management
|By svonroth

Chief Executive Officer & co-founder

Samuel studied at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) and obtained a MS of Physics from EPFL. His master thesis on the optical properties of semiconductors was conducted at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (Russia). During his PhD at EPFL, he further developed Attolight’s ultrafast cathodoluminescence technology and used this technique to advance the understanding of optical properties of nitride based semiconductors. Samuel decided to jump into the entrepreneurial world after his PhD thesis and co-founded Attolight with Jean Berney. Since then he has headed the business development of the company with a strong focus on developing industrial applications of cathodoluminescence.