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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Marie Obien

CCO
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Marie Obien is MaxWell Biosystems’ CCO and 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
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Sander Arets

Marketing Specialist
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Sindhu Chinnamsetti

Supply Chain Associate
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Tobia Claglüna

Associate Software Engineer
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Steffen Deubler

Senior Software Engineer
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Eliane Duperrex

Eliane Duperrex

Associate Application Scientist
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David Filiberti

Associate R&D Engineer
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    Ermanno Fiscella

    Logistics Manager
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    Diana Freire

    Scientific Marketing Specialist
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    Martina de Gennaro

    Martina de Gennaro

    Field Application Scientist
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    Désirée Gisin

    Executive Assistant
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    Wei Gong

    Application Scientist
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    Emily Grimes

    Emily Grimes

    Marketing Digital Intern

    Elena Gronskaya

    Application Scientist
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    Elvira Guella

    Associate Application Scientist
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    David Jäckel

    Senior Product Manager
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    Teresa Jost

    Administrative Assistant
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    Fabian Jüngling

    Associate R&D Engineer
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    Gerhard Krause

    Gerhard Krause

    Associate R&D Engineer
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    Zhuoliang (Ed) Li

    Zhuoliang (Ed) Li

    Field Application Scientist
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    Praveena Manogaran

    Praveena Manogaran

    Senior Scientist
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    Ayiba Momoh

    Field Application Scientist
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    Silvia Ronchi

    Scientific Application Specialist
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    Juanita Schneiter

    Operator

    Silke Seyock

    Application Scientist
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    Anaïs Thammavongsa

    Associate Data Scientist
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    Kazu Okada

    Inside Sales Representative
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    Vijay Viswam

    Senior Circuit Designer, R&D
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    Xinyue Yuan

    Circuit Designer / R&D Engineer
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    Tina Žel

    Tina Žel

    Marketing Operations Representative
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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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