About
Hans grew up in Obersiggenthal, near the border triangle of Switzerland, Germany and France. Thanks to a project to automate his chicken coop, Hans came into contact with the world of microcontrollers at an early age. After designing a remote-controlled zeppelin and successfully participating in the Swiss Physics Olympiad during high school, he moved to Germany to study electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
He conducted his bachelor’s thesis at the Alaska Satellite Facility, where he built a ground station for a student CubeSat project. This led him to specialize in communications engineering for his master’s degree. The courses on optical integrated circuits and information theory captured his interest. His master’s thesis focused on Loopy Belief Propagation algorithms for MAP estimation in communications. As a student assistant, he was able to work with a FPGA platform and gain experience in teaching as a tutor.
Due to a great experience at L’Arche of Mexico City, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities, Hans decided to spend the time between his master’s and PhD studies volunteering at another L’Arche community in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Hans is excited to deepen his expertise in photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic secure accelerators and to contribute to the scientific progress in this field.
Interests
Hans’ research interests include photonic integrated circuits, neuromorphic accelerators, LNOI platform, security at the edge, hardware security, and physical unclonable functions.
Outside of his research, Hans enjoys hiking, exploring the surroundings by bike, scouting activities and board and card games.