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Nava Setter
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Ceramics Laboratory
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Professor, Director of the Ceramics Laboratory
nationality: Swiss and Israeli
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office(s):
MXC240
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32961,32945,32975
private phone: + 41 (0)79 292 8569
fax: + 41 (0)21 693 5810
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BIOGRAPHY
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Nava Setter obtained B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. degree in Solid State Science from the Pennsylvania State University USA in 1980. She worked in the area of electronic materials at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, at the Physics Department in University of Oxford, at the Chemistry Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and in Haifa, Israel. Since 1989 she has been a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the Ceramics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL).
Her current scientific research interests include non linear dielectrics for high frequencies, relaxor ferroelectrics, piezoelectric/ferroelectric thin films and their interface with other materials, and small structures for sensors and actuators and for applications in electronics. Other interests include education at the university and the secondary school levels.
Nava Setter is the director of a large laboratory in the area of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials, collaborating with numerous industries and academic laboratories in Europe and elsewhere. She has authored and coauthored over 350 scientific papers in the area of electronic materials for information and communication technologies and for Microsystems, edited and coauthored a number of books and conference proceedings in these fields, headed various European and Swiss research programs, organized and presided a number of international meetings. She served as the head of the Materials department of EPFL during 1996-1998. She has been member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences since 1995, was a Meirhof invited Prof. in the Weizmann Institute of Science during Winter 1999 and invited Prof. in Tokyo Institute of Technology during Spring 2007. She received the SKORE-A award, the ISIF outstanding achievement award and the Ferroelectrics-IEEE recognition award. She served as the distinguished lecturer of the UFFC-IEEE during 2005. She is Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the World Academy of Ceramics and Honorary Prof. of the Xi'an Jiaotong Uniersity.
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Full Professor