Gerhard Tröster
Professor
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineer
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Gerhard Tröster has been Full Professor of Electronics at the ETH Zurich since August 1993. He heads the discipline of "Digital Systems & Wearable Computing" at the Electronics Laboratory. Gerhard Tröster was born in Würzburg in 1953. He studied electrical engineering in Darmstadt and Karlsruhe, earning his doctorate in 1984 at the Technical University Darmstadt with a dissertation about the design of integrated circuits. During the eight years he spent at Telefunken (atmel) in Heilbronn, his research interests were concentrated on design methods of analog/digital systems in CMOS and BiCMOS technology. Various national and international research projects have focused on the development of key components for the ISDN and digital mobile telephones. Since 1993 he directs the Electronics Laboratory at the ETH. In 1997 he co-founded the spin-off u-blox ag.
Research Interest
Gerhard Tröster Research area are: Wearable Computing, Context recognition, Opportunistic sensing, Crowd monitoring and sensing, Application in healthcare, sport, music, Flexible thinfilm electronics, IGZO devices and circuits, Mechanically flexible sensors, Transfer of electronic membrane.
