Silvan Suter Email & Phone Number

Lausanne, VD, CH

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• The EssentialTech Centre at EPFL creates sustainable and scalable healthcare solutions for underserved populations. Together with interdisciplinary and international partners, we develop technical prototypes and.
• Generate prototype development and market strategy
• Establish multi-stakeholder partnerships and develop project strategy
• Grant writing and fundraising (750k + raised from public funding agencies, among others)
• Project execution, monitoring and control
• Reporting and presentation of deliverables to project partners and funders

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• The EssentialMed Foundation is committed to the development and deployment of effective, high quality and affordable medical devices. Its next flagship product, an ultra-robust transport incubator, will help stabilise.
• Coordinate an international consortium of medical device and public health experts to strategize the deployment of transport incubators in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Manage feasibility studies for ancillary products such as AI-based body weight estimation from an image
• Supporting the team in fundraising by developing grant writing strategiesPublication: "Ending Neonatal Deaths from Hypothermia in Sub-Saharan Africa: Call for Essential Technologies Tailored to the Context"

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• The core technology of the newborn incubator is a thermal battery that provides heat to keep the infant warm during transport or power outages.Responsibilities:
• In charge of the design of the patented phase-change material thermal battery and the improvement of the ventilation system

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Imagine drinking coffee that is traded fairly and at eye level. Imagine coffee farmers actually getting the price they need for their work. Imagine your coffee coming from Mexico on a sailing ship powered by the wind..
• Develop a sustainable coffee supply chain, focusing on organic farming techniques and sailing cargo to minimize the environmental footprint of coffee. Build up to 11 tons of coffee per year
• In charge of the design and implementation of a coffee subscription model to involve the consumer in the pre-financing of the coffee harvest
• Responsible for logistics and coffee quality, sensory and roasting

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Enhancement of carbon dioxide conversion into high-value chemicals.Responsibilities:
• Team lead for various work packages in the framework of 2 multi-national, EU-funded research projects in the field of CO2 conversion into high value chemicals.
• Prototype development and testing for a photo-electrochemical reactor to convert CO2 into CO using concentrated sunlight.
• Characterization of the morphology of gas diffusion and catalyst layers using FIB-SEM tomography and image processing.
• Data visualization and communication to report to an interdisciplinary project committee.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Advancing photoelectrochemical water splitting and electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction:Linking Morphology and Multiphysical Transport in Structured Electrodes.Experience:
• Data management and analysis to reconstruct 3D models from computed X-ray tomography and FIB-SEM nano tomography.
• Characterization of multi-scale porous materials based on acquired tomography data using image processing and accurate 3D meshing.
• Heat and mass transport, semiconductor physics and electromagnetic wave propagation simulations combined with experiments to provide design guidelines for porous photoelectrodes and electrochemical reactors.
• Innovation-driven process flow development and testing for a novel template-stripping method using photolithography, silicon etching and film transfer techniques in a clean room facility to fabricate photoelectrodes.
• Numerous collaboration with international institutes, writing articles in peer-reviewed journals, and giving talks at international conferences.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Collaboration with an industrial partner to characterize the structure of their porous aluminum foam.
• Image processing of computed tomography data and finite volume calculations to optimize the foam porosity and morphology in order to improve the heat and mass transfer.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Engineering and optimization of a porous heat absorber and reaction media in a solar-driven thermochemical fuel processing reactor.
• Characterization of the foam-like morphology using computed tomography.
• Image processing to model the effect of the fabrication process on the foam morphology.
• Monte-Carlo ray tracing and finite volume calculations to find the morphological dependencies of the the radiative, convective and conductive heat transfer as well as the mass transfer.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Designing a test bench to monitor the accuracy of bismuth telluride based heat flux sensors used in the company’s first production line.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Computational modeling of a fluidized bed system to guide the manufacturing of an UV-irradiated catalytic water splitting reactor.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Energy

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering