Team

Management

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.

Contact

+41 44 244 24 24

Jan Müller

CTO
About

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.

Contact

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Marie Obien

CCO
About

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.

Contact

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Marcel Suter

VP Operations
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Kim Schwendener

Kim Schwendener

Head of HR and Finance

Meet the Team

Andrea Bevacqua

Andrea Bevacqua

Logistics Intern
Ines Blanc Giro

Ines Blanc Giro

Account Management Intern
Sakura Blaser

Sakura Blaser

Executive Assistant to the CCO
Josef Bolten

Josef Bolten

R&D Intern
Robert Bommeli

Robert Bommeli

R&D Engineer Intern
Andrey Chernov

Andrey Chernov

Application Scientist Intern
Joana Cruz

Joana Cruz

Technical Application Specialist
Cheyenne Diem

Cheyenne Diem

Data Scientist Intern
Laura D’Ignazio

Laura D’Ignazio

Senior Key Account Manager
Steffen Deubler

Steffen Deubler

Senior Software Engineer
Contact

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Muriel Durrer

Muriel Durrer

Process Engineer Associate
Ferran Esquius Cano

Ferran Esquius Cano

Marketing & Lead Generation Coordinator
Ermanno Fiscella

Ermanno Fiscella

Senior Logistic Manager
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+41 44 244 24 24
Diana Freire

Diana Freire

Marketing and Communications Manager
Contact

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Christian Garbin

Christian Garbin

Sales Operations Project Manager
Mahdi Ghazal

Mahdi Ghazal

R&D Application Engineer
Fabian Graf

Fabian Graf

Account Manager
Elvira Guella

Elvira Guella

Application Scientist
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Mengting Huang

Mengting Huang

Technical Application Specialist
Ivan Ilak

Ivan Ilak

Software Engineer
David Jäckel

David Jäckel

Senior Product Manager
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Robert Jelitto

Robert Jelitto

Associate Application Engineer
Matej Juracka

Matej Juracka

Senior Software Engineer
Peter Kaplan

Peter Kaplan

IT Administrator & Software Engineer
Susanna König

Susanna König

HR & Administrative Assistant
Dario Lenherr

Dario Lenherr

Production Manager Consumables & Process Engineer
Zhuoliang (Ed) Li

Zhuoliang (Ed) Li

Field Application Scientist
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Rebecca Lyttkens

Rebecca Lyttkens

Procurement Associate
Praveena Manogaran

Praveena Manogaran

Scientific Team Lead
Contact

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Fraser McCready

Fraser McCready

Field Application Scientist
Ouissame Mnie-Filali

Ouissame Mnie-Filali

Business Development Manager
Francesco Modena

Francesco Modena

Data Scientist
Karin Morandell

Karin Morandell

Field Application Scientist
Mao Obien

Mao Obien

Digital Designer
Kazu Okada

Kazu Okada

Inside Sales Representative
Contact

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Silvia Oldani

Silvia Oldani

Field Application Scientist
Contact

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Milos Radivojevic

Milos Radivojevic

Scientific Application Specialist
Endri Rama

Endri Rama

Senior R&D Engineer
Silvia Ronchi

Silvia Ronchi

Scientific Application Specialist
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Juanita Schneiter

Juanita Schneiter

Operator
Simon Sennhauser

Simon Sennhauser

Application Scientist Intern
Silke Seyock

Silke Seyock

Application Scientist
Contact

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Nadiya Suter

Nadiya Suter

Operator
Vasia Theodoropoulou

Vasia Theodoropoulou

Digital Marketing Specialist
Anastasiia Tourbier

Anastasiia Tourbier

Field Application Scientist
Patricia Valerio

Patricia Valerio

Scientific Communications Specialist
Elia Varini

Elia Varini

R&D Engineer Intern
Miguel Veloso O’Donell

Miguel Veloso O’Donell

Customer Success Manager
Vijay Viswam

Vijay Viswam

R&D Project Manager
Contact

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Tim Wyss

Tim Wyss

R&D Engineer Intern
Xiaohan Xue

Xiaohan Xue

Field Application Scientist
Xinyue Yuan

Xinyue Yuan

Circuit Designer & R&D Engineer
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Philipp Zappa

Philipp Zappa

Development Engineer & Supply Chain Manager
Contact

+41 44 244 24 24
Jérôme Zemp

Jérôme Zemp

Senior R&D Engineer
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