Primary Job Title Professor, Physics Primary Organization Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Location Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Andre is an Emeritus Professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Previously, he was a Professor of Physics and the Head of the Department of Physics at the EPFL. Andre has been active in nano-science research since the 1970s. He also was researcher in the Solid State Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
and a Co-Investigator for lunar materials in the NASA Apollo project. He spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics of the University of California Berkeley. More recently, Andre served as a Deputy in the parliament of the Canton of Vaud for ten years and participated to the redaction of a new constitution.
Andre obtained his Master in Science in Physics and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland). He did a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories (USA).
