Janos Vörös
Professor
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
János Vörös is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the University and ETH Zurich (Department for Information Technology and Electrical Engineering) heading the Laboratory for Biosensors and Bioelectronics since 1st of January, 2006. Born on June 24th of 1970 in Keszthely, Hungary, János Vörös has studied Physics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After receiving a diploma in Physics in 1995, he was a doctoral student at the Department of Biological Physics of the Eötvös University (in collaboration with Microvacuum Ltd.) where he received his PhD in Biophysics in 2000. Since 1998 he was a member of the BioInterface group in the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology at the Department of Materials of ETH Zurich as visiting scientist, postdoc, and from 2004 as group leader of the Dynamic BioInterfaces group until 2006. Prof. Vörös also has an adjunct appointment at the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics of the Pennsylvania State University.
Research Interest
Bioelectronics, Nano-Biotechnology, Biosensors, Biophysics, and Biomaterials
