Giovanni Nisato is a business and technology development senior manager at CSEM Muttenz, Switzerland, and is responsible for activities in printed electronics and photovoltaics. He currently serves on the board of the Organic and Printed Electronics Association (OE-A), where he created the Working Group Encapsulation and has been coordinating the Organic Photovoltaic Roadmap since 2011. Dr. Nisato’s prior experience includes a decade at Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has also participated in EU-funded projects as well as coordinated them. His nanoscience research experience includes work at the NIST’s Polymers Division in Gaithersburg, USA. He holds a PhD in physics from the Université Louis Pasteur (now University of Strasbourg), France.
Donald Lupo is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and heads the Laboratory for Future Electronics at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, since August 2010. He has a diverse career spanning 24 years in industrial research and development in functional materials for photonics and electronics, during which he has worked in chemical, electronic, and display industries and as an independent consultant, working for and with companies such as Hoechst AG, Sony Europe, NTera, UPM Kymmene, and Merck. During his industrial career, he led groundbreaking work in organic nonlinear optics, polymer LEDs, solid-state dye solar cells, and paper-like displays. He is author on over 60 publications and inventor on over 40 patents and applications.
Simone Rudolf, née Ganz, is a development engineer at Heraeus Noblelight GmbH, Germany, and works on process and application development for infrared heating processes. She studied chemistry and management at Ulm University, Germany, and completed her Diplom (master’s equivalent) in battery technologies at VARTA Microbattery GmbH, Germany. Subsequently, she joined the Functional Printing Group at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, where she obtained her PhD. Her research was focused on printing techniques, especially gravure and flexography, for organic field-effect transistors. As former co-spokesperson of the OEA’s Working Group Education, she furthered academic education within the field of organic electronics.
