Dr. Thomas Blättler

Chapter of the ETH Zurich Alumni of the wider area Baden, Switzerland --- My focus: Establish the Chapter Baden as Networking Platform for ETH Zurich Alumni, exchange experience and challenges over the boarders of the own organization/industry to find creative solutions, best practices and new ways of working & meet interesting people

Director of Product Line Development - accountable for: - Product offering "platform elements" for internal R&Ds - Life Cycle Management of platform elements - Project Portfolio Management - Development and Testing Teams - Size of organization 100+ employees, multi-site (Rotkreuz, Switzerland & Barcelona, Spain)

Chapter of the ETH Zurich Alumni of the wider area Baden, Switzerland --- My focus: Establish the Chapter Baden as Networking Platform for ETH Zurich Alumni, exchange experience and challenges over the boarders of the own organization/industry to find creative solutions, best practices and new ways of working & meet interesting people

Project Portfolio Manager and Department Leader, responsible for: CPS (Centralized and PoC Diagnostics) Instrument R&D Project Portfolio & Instrument Development Project Leaders / Programm Managers --- Functional Lead, responsible for: Key Account Management for the Life Cycle Teams Specialty Testing, c4000 and Custom Biotech representing the global R&D function in the respective business teams

R&D Department Leader, deputy of Head CoE Consumables, responsible for: Consumables Development Projects Portfolio within Roche Diagnostics, Consumables Department Project Leaders and Consumabels Development Engineers, Consumables Development Strategy and Processes & Department Cost Center

Project Lead for Consumabels (System Component) Projects - from first Requirements to the launched product. Responsibilities include: Lead Project Team, Design development of selling units and complete documentation according the Consumabels Development Process, Implementation of series production with contract manufacturing partners until final production process validation

PhD student at the Institute for Surface Science and Technology and at the Laboratory for Biosensors and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Thesis title: "Particle Self-Assembly for the Creation of Biomolecular Patterns" Additional achievements: Supervision of 5 masters and 6 bachelor theses, 5 papers/reviews published in scientific journals, presentation of 4 talks and several posters at international conferences, 1 US provisional patent

Internship in the group of high temperature superconductors: Improvement of superconducting properties of Bi2212 via new sintering protocols