Prof. Christofer Hierold
    ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    
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      A concept for thin film TEGs will be introduced and
        discussed, considering the optimization of thermal interfaces.
      
      
      
      
      Biographical Information
      
      
      
      Christofer Hierold has been a Professor of Micro and Nanosystems,
      Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, at ETH Zurich
      since April 2002.
His research is focused on the evaluation of new
        materials for MEMS, on advanced microsystems, and on
        nanotransducers. Christofer Hierold is founding chairman of one
        of ETH Zurich’s inter-departmental competence centers, the Micro
        and Nano Science Platform and he coordinates the management team
        of ETH Zurich’s cleanroom facility, the FIRST lab. In addition,
        he is a member of the international steering committees of major
        conferences in the field (MEMS, TRANSDUCERS, EUROSENSORS), he is
        a member of the editorial boards of IEEE/ASME Journal of
        Microelectromechanical Systems and of IoP Journal of
        Micromechanics and Microengineering, and he is joint editor of
        the book series Advanced Micro and Nanosystems (Wiley-VCH).