Thomas Gersdorf

-Coordination of a 2-year research collaboration project with Novartis AG -Teaching assistant for 3 different Strategy lectures -Conception and development of a new lecture “Practicing Strategy” for the executive education program -Mentoring of 12+ Master’s thesis projects in collaboration with corporate partners

-Representation of ca. 5000 scientific staff members to the school board of ETH and outside, important role in establishing a good working relationship with 4 relevant school board members -Co-led a team of 18 voluntary board members and one secretary

• Initiated a knowledge and information management project with suggestions for new organizational practices and supportive IT tools for the Marketing&Sales division • Improvement and development of customer enabling efforts (products, services) • Development of competitive strategy for a product group • Product value: Concept to improve long-term customer value of products

-Graduate visiting student & research associate in the group of Prof. Zwierlein -Responsible for designing, planning and building a new experiment with a budget of over 1 million dollar -Supervision of two undergraduate students and guiding of two incoming graduate students -Nomination of the research results as «Top-10 Breakthroughs in Physics 2015» by the Institute of Physics

Strategic Management, Innovation Management, Leadership

AMO (Atomic, Molecular and Optical) Physics, Ultracold Quantum Gases, Experimental Physics

Chemistry, Physics