Of German nationality, Patrik Hoffmann was born in Landau in der Pfalz in Germany in 1961. After the studies in Chemistry at Fridericiana University (Ecole Polytechnique) of Karsruhe, he obtained his diploma of chemistry in 1988. He carried out his PhD in EPFL and got docteur ès sciences in 1992 for his work on the deposition of metallic micro- and nano-structures. In 1993, he moved to research centre of IBM at Almaden in California, USA and then was employed by IBM. He moved back to EPFL in 1995 to join the Institute of Applied Optics as adjoint scientifique. He became the head of dental section and department of R&D in a German galvanic company in 1995. In March 1997, he was nominated Maître d'enseignement et de recherche (MER), specialized in techniques of microfabrication by laser at the Institute of Applied Optics of department of microtechnics in EPFL. At EPFL, Patrik Hoffmann has been teaching and doing research in an interdisciplinary way. His main research activities include resolving the concrete problems in micro- and nanostructuring of different materials by such means as lasers and electrons/ions. Since 2009 Patrik Hoffmann was nominated head of Laboratory for Avanced Materials Processing at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. The laboratory works on laser materials processing and other advanced technologies with about 30 collaborators. In 2009 EPFL nominated Patrik Hoffmann the title adjunct professor. He is teaching in the Bachelor and Master program in Microtechnique, and in the Doctoral programs in Materials Sciences and technolgy and in Optics. In 2016 he was nominated guest professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan, and in 2017 guest professor at Shenzhen technical University in China.

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