Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Ph.D. is the Founder of SWISSto12 SA. Dr. Ansermet served as President of the Swiss Physical Society since 2002. He is a Professor at the Physics Institute of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in Switzerland. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has expertise in spintronics, nanomagnetism, solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), nanostructured materials, and materials science. He was for several years employed in the materials research center at Ciba-Geigy on polymers for microelectronics, composites, dielectrics, and organic charge transfer complexes. Dr. Ansermet served as Secretary of the European Physical Society. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at SWISSto12 SA. He serves as a Director at the Physics Institute of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in Switzerland. He pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in the United States. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States and an M.S. degree in Physics from the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne in Switzerland.