Former director, Radiation Protection Division: Georges Piller (1954) studied atomic and nuclear physics at the University of Fribourg obtaining his doctorate there in 1984. Following a 2-year research assignment on advanced pressurized water reactors working on the Proteus reactor of the Swiss Institute for Reactor Research (now the PSI), Georges Piller joined the Swiss Federal…

Deputy Director / Director, NPPs Division: Georg Schwarz studied geophysics at ETH Zurich and was awarded his doctorate in 1991 by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. Following assignments at ETH and a period as an independent software specialist, Georg Schwarz joined the former HSK in 1994. Since then, he has performed various roles, initially working…

Director General: Hans Wanner (1955) studied chemistry at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1984. Following a research assignment at the PSI where he developed models for chemical processes in a deep geological repository, he joined the NEA of the OECD in Paris in 1986. He worked on the development of the international Thermochemical…

Director, Waste Disposal Division: Felix Altorfer studied physics at the ETH Zurich, and obtained his doctorate in 1994 at the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering at the ETH. After working in the US for four years at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, he returned to Switzerland to undertake research…

Director General: Marc Kenzelmann studied biology and received his doctorate in 1999 from the University of Bern’s Institute of Infectious Diseases. After several years of research at the Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, he moved to the Federal Office for Civil Protection in 2007. There he worked until 2013 as Head of the National NBC…