Members of the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB)

The International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) is an advisory body to the Executive Committee. It is in charge of accompanying IP Paris in its reflection on the main orientations of its scientific policy. Its members are eminent international scientific personalities whose research covers all the disciplinary fields of IP Paris.

Patrick Aebischer

Patrick Aebischer is the past-president of EPFL, a world class research University that he led from 2000 to 2016.

He was trained as an MD (1980) and a Neuroscientist (1983) at the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland. From 1984 to 1992, he was a Faculty member of Brown University in Providence (Rhode Island, USA). In the fall of 1992, he returned to Switzerland as a Professor and Director of the Surgical Research Division and Gene Therapy Center at CHUV. Patrick Aebischer is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a member of the Swiss Academy of Medicine and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Patrick Aebischer is the founder of three biotechnology companies. He presently seats on the board of Lonza, Nestlé and Logitech. He is the Chairman of the Novartis Venture Fund and a senior partner of NanoDimension-III, a venture capital firm based both in Silicon Valley and Lausanne.

Roberta Ramponi

Prof Mechanical Eng & Applied Phys
Politecnico de Milano. Her research has covered a wide range of activities in the fields of Quantum Electronics, Optoelectronics, Quantum Optics and Photonics. In particular she has developed innovative techniques for the fabrication of waveguides in nonlinear crystals, passive and active glasses and for the accurate characterization of such waveguides; moreover she has studied the design and realization of all-optical devices for applications to sensors and optical communications. More recently she has been involved in the design and realization of integrated micro-optofluidic devices, by means of direct writing with femtosecond laser pulses for the fabrication of optical waveguides, and of the same technique followed by chemical etching for microchannels.

Yasuhiko Arakawa

Director of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics
Tokyo University
His research focuses on semiconductor physics , including growth of nanostructures and their optoelectronic applications. Among his main achievements are the proposal of the concept of quantum dots and their application to quantum dot lasers, the observation of exciton-polariton Rabi-splitting in a semiconductor microcavity,or, recently, the first 3D photonic crystal nanocavity lasers with quantum dot gain.

Seeram Ramakrishna

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, Everest Chair is a world-renowned scholar of cross-field at the National University of Singapore, which is ranked among the top eight universities in the world. He is among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Clarivate Analytics recognized him among the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in the world. He is regarded as the guru of electrospinning & nanofiber applications. His publications to date received an H-index of 191 and 176 818 citations. Highest professional distinctions include an elected Fellow | Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China; Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), UK; Indian National Academy of Engineering, India; ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology; and Singapore Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected Fellow of AAAS, ASM International, ASME, AIMBE, USA; IMechE and IoM3, UK; ISTE, India; and IUBSE (FBSE). He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and the GMP training from Harvard University, USA. His academic leadership includes NUS’s Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry and Technology Relations Office; Director of NUS International Relations Office; Founding Director of NUS Bioengineering; Founding Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Institute; and Founding Chairman of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, SERIS. He is a leading voice in Singapore’s circular economy and decarbonization advocacy.

Bernard Salanié

Bernard Salanié is a French economist. He is professor of economics at Columbia University. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1984 and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in 1986. He received a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1992. His doctoral advisor was François Bourguignon, who was the former Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2003 to 2007.
From 1986 to 1990, Bernard Salanié worked for the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, before becoming professor of ENSAE and rising to its director. He was also director of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics from 2001 to 2003. He joined the Columbia University faculty in 2005. He is known in France for his blog "L'économie sans tabou." Bernard Salanié has published widely in the field of microeconomic theory and applied econometrics, and his current research focuses on insurance, methods for policy evaluation, and the economics of the family. He was a managing editor of The Review of Economic Studies from 2003 to 2007. He has been a fellow of the Econometric Society since 2001.

Sonia Seneviratne

Sonia Seneviratne was born in 1974 in Lausanne (Switzerland), and studied at the University of Lausanne (Biology) and at ETH Zurich (Environmental Physics). After her master thesis, performed in a research visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-1999), she conducted her PhD thesis at ETH Zurich (1999-2002). She was then a visiting researcher at NASA/GSFC (2003-2004), initiated through a fellowship of the National Center for Competence Research in Climate (NCCR- Climate). In 2005, she returned as a senior scientist to ETH Zurich, where she was nominated assistant professor in 2007. She was nominated associate professor in 2013, and full professor in 2016. She is a Revelle Medal committee member. In 2013, she received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union.

Carlo Sirtori

Carlo Sirtori received his PhD in physics from the University of Milan in 1990. He joined Bell Labs where he made important contributions to the development of the “Quantum Cascade Laser”. In 1997, he joined THALES Research & Technology (TRT) in France and became the head of the “Semiconductor Laser Group” in 2000. In 2002, he has been appointed Professor at the University Paris Diderot, where he continues his research on quantum devices. Since 2010, he is the Director of the MPQ laboratories of the CNRS and University Paris Diderot. He has received several prestigious awards such as the Fresnel Prize (European Physical Society) and various prizes in the USA, such as the “quantum devices award”.

Tamar Ziegler

Prof. Tamar Ziegler received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University. She spent five years in the US as a postdoc at the Ohio State University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the University of Michigan. She was a faculty member at the Technion in the years 2007- 2013, and joined the Hebrew University in the Fall of 2013 as a full professor. One of her major contributions is the resolution of a long-standing open problem in number theory regarding patterns in the prime numbers. Together with Green and Tao she showed the existence of solutions to any admissible affine linear systems of finite complexity in the prime numbers. Prof. Ziegler received several awards and honors for her work including the Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in mathematics in 2011.