Team

Meet the Team

Urs Frey

CEO
About
Urs Frey is the CEO at MaxWell Biosystems and a member of the founding team. Urs is responsible for running MaxWell Biosystems, business development, finances and product design.

Urs earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich before moving to at IBM Research, where he did a postdoc on mixed-signal circuit design. Later, Urs was heading an independent laboratory focusing on CMOS-based bioelectronics and biosensors at RIKEN, Japan. During the past 15 years he has built up considerable experience in project and people management. Urs is the innovator of the “switch-matrix” architecture of our microelectrode arrays.

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Jan Müller

CTO
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Jan Müller is MaxWell Biosystems’ CTO and a member of the founding team. Jan is responsible for technology development, innovation and supply chain management. He is the key contributor to MaxWell Biosystems’ hardware and software. Jan is the expert in MEA technology and the inventor of our core 26,000 microelectrode array.

Jan obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich (D-BSSE). He has an interdisciplinary background in computer science, electrical engineering, systems biology and computational neuroscience.

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Michele Fiscella

VP Scientific Affairs
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Michele Fiscella is the Vice President, Scientific Affairs at MaxWell Biosystems and a member of the founding team. Michele is an expert in retina physiology, neuroscience and biotechnology with strong skills in electrophysiology techniques and statistics applied to biological data and analysis/modeling of neural signals. He discovered the physiological role of a gene involved in a human disease of vision, by MEA technology.

Michele obtained his Master in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology from University of Bologna and his PhD degree from ETH Zurich.

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Marie Obien

VP Marketing & Sales
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Marie Obien is Vice President, Marketing and Sales and is a member of the founding team of MaxWell Biosystems. Marie is a specialist in electrophysiology, with strong skills in MEAs and various techniques, including the gold-standard electrophysiology method–patch-clamp. She is the author of the currently most frequently cited review on MEAs. Marie participated in the Global Innovation Program workshop for business development in the Silicon Valley.

Marie earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from NAIST, Japan, and obtained her training in neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN, Japan.

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Marcel Suter

VP Operations

Sander Arets

Marketing Specialist
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Nikhil Biyani

Senior Software Engineer
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Leo Brockhuis

Associate Mechanical Engineer

Franka Butzbach

Scientific Sales Associate
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Naomi Cantos

R&D Associate
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Steffen Deubler

Senior Software Engineer

Diana Freire

Scientific Marketing Specialist

    Ermanno Fiscella

    Logistics Manager
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    Wei Gong

    Application Scientist
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    Rebekka Hosch

    Associate R&D Engineer

    Elena Gronskaya

    Application Scientist
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    Robert Jelitto

    Associate Algorithm Engineer

    Désirée Gisin

    Executive Assistant
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    David Jäckel

    Senior Product Manager
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    Maria Kampardi

    Digital Marketing Associate
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    Kazu Okada

    Inside Sales Representative
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    Daniel Pizzato

    AMS Designer
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    Szilard Sajgo

    R&D Scientist
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    Silke Seyock

    Application Scientist
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    Juanita Schneiter

    Operator

    Victor Steininger

    Associate Product Manager

    Saki Vezzoli

    Inside Sales Associate
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    Vijay Viswam

    Senior Circuit Designer, R&D
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    Sophie Wolf

    Marketing and Communications Manager
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    Xinyue Yuan

    Circuit Designer / R&D Engineer
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    Philipp Zappa

    Development Engineer & Supply Chain Manager
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    Giulio Zorzi

    Product Manager & Application Engineer
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    Wei Zhu

    China Business Manager
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