Florian Kehl Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

- Developing and mentoring the ETH Space Master's program to enhance its academic excellence and global recognition. Leading engineering components, including laboratory experiments and simulations, and serving as a mentor for MSc student projects.- Coordinating the "Faculty Accelerator" at ETH Zürich | Space to foster innovation and collaboration within the space ecosystem, providing operational support, and promoting interdisciplinary space research and innovation projects.- Supporting strategic project acquisition and management, assisting ETH faculty in securing roles in major space projects, and contributing to project design and execution to meet global standards.

Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss project manager for ESA's ARRAKIHS Space Telescope F-class mission,Co-Investigator for ESA project ARISE - Autonomous Robots for In-situ Surface Exploration,Lecturer for the classes "Introduction to Astrobiology" and "Biosignatures & Life Detection"

NASA-JPL Affiliate remotely working on OWLS - Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor Instrument Suite,Co-PI for ESA project GLIMPSE - A Geological Lunar In-Situ Mapper and Prospector For Surface Exploration,Lecturer for the graduate class "Biosignatures & Life Detection"

Part of the Space Biology Group at the Institute for Medical Engineering,Project manager for a large internal project,Thesis advisor and lecturer of classes in "Physics 1 & 2", "Python", "Introduction to Biomolecules" and "Material Sciences"

Continued project support and technical guidance for NASA-JPL's Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS) project as a subcontractor within the Chemical Analysis & Life Detection Group. Brassboard development, subsystems maturation, and technology readiness level advancement of components for next-generation life-detection instruments. Most work performed remotely from Switzerland under a contract with NASA-JPL and the University of Zurich's Space Hub.

Pasadena, Usa

Technologist and In-Situ Instrument Developer in the Chemical Analysis and Life Detection Group/Instruments and Science Data Systems Division.

Pasadena, California, Usa

Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Peter A. Willis in JPL's MicroDevices Laboratory in the Instruments and Science Data Systems Division on the development of an instrument suite for in-situ analysis of prebiotic compounds on Mars, Europa, Enceladus and other alien worlds.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Scientific advisor and rocketry & aeronautics consultant for Ridley Scott's and Mark Heyman's CBS All Access TV show "Strange Angel" where I work with the staff towards incorporating scientifically accurate dialogs and visuals.

Landquart

Responsible for the development of an integrated, multiplexed, label-free, remotely-controlled and portable optical biosensor platform to detect and monitor online the interaction, presence and concentration of (bio)molecules. Lead in systems design, optics, mechanics, electronics and microfluidics.

Landquart

Balzers, Liechtenstein

Responsible for R&D engineering efforts in the field of waveguide grating based biosensors. Internal scientific and technical leader in European FP7 project. Manager of a research project funded by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation CTI.

Landquart, Switzerland

Phd Student, Information Technology And Electrical Engineering, Laboratory Of Biosensors And Bioelectronics

Development of a multiplex robust, label-free, remotely-controlled and portable optical biosensor platform for online monitoring of toxins.

Guest, In Affiliation With Position At Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jpl

Activities and Societies: Aero Association of the California Institute of Technology (AACIT)

Master'S Thesis, Visiting Research Scholar, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center

Visiting Research Scholar Master's Thesis: Research on an autonomous, guided small scale rocket with gimbaled thrust and MEMS 6 DoF.

Master'S Degree, Nanosciences, Major In Physics, 6.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Nanoscience