Starting from clear market needs for the aging society, I have contributed within CSEM a major Swiss Research and Innovation facility to build technology that is today applied and applicable in number of application fields as medical, sport, lifestyle.

A number of companies have created jobs based upon this technology. Precision, miniaturization, low power and complexity are the key features of these developments. This knowledge drives to devices, more often medical, that are on the skin, under the skin, in the brain to help forecast epilepsy crisis, mitigate Parkinson symptoms, help tetraplegic or going down to cell level therapy prevent plague formation. Convergence and coexistence of technologies is on the heart of.

George Kotrotsios has devoted his career to creating economic and social value through cutting-edge technologies. He holds a PhD in optoelectronics from the Polytechnic University (INPG) of Grenoble, France, and an MBA (innovation and entrepreneurship) from EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. For 17 years, he was Vice President of Business Development at CSEM (www.csem.ch), a leading Swiss research and innovation center in microelectronics and intelligent digital systems. Between 2010 and 2022, he was a member of the CSEM Executive Board. He was responsible for the development of portable medical devices (2000-), working closely with the technical divisions. Today, CSEM is considered a world leader in this field. Another important responsibility was the reconstruction of the internal startup ecosystem. From 2008 to 2011, he was chairman of the board of directors of the startup Sensecore (medical wearables), until CSEM’s exit after a major investment round).

He is currently a technology consultant to three medical startups:

• Roumai Medical (tissue-engineered blood vessels and smart stents), www.roumaimed.comfinancement 13.5 million euros, 20 million euros expected, www.roumaimed.com, Shenzhen and Lausanne)
• PhosPrint (printing human organs during surgery, winner of the European Innovation Council prize), www.phosprint.eu, Athens)
• Wazima Health (telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa), www.wazima.health, London and Lagos)

He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of SATW, the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (2022-) and the International Advisory Board of IDIAP (www.idiap.ch – Research Center on AI and RObotics) (2021-), the Swiss Institute for Research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and the Executive Board of the Hellenic Chip Competence Center (2025-.)

He was a member (2008-2022) of the executive committee of the alliance between Fraunhofer-microelectronics, CEA-LETI, VTT, CSEM (HTA – Heterogeneous Technology Alliance; www.hta-online.eu). He chaired this alliance in 2012, 2016, and 2020.

He recently participated in the working group that structured the Open Quantum Institute, which now operates at CERN, with funding from UBS (www.gesda.global/solutions/open-quantum-institute-about).

Finally, he was a member (2009-2018) of the executive board of EARTO (European Association of Research and Technology Organizations – www.earto.eu) representing Switzerland. EARTO defends the interests of European research organizations before the European Commission.

He has published numerous articles in scientific journals and conferences and two books entitled “Data, New Technologies and Global Imbalances, beyond the obvious” and “Social Classes and Political Order in the Age of Data” (Cambridge Scholar Publishing).

His articles and interviews have been published in major Swiss newspapers (“Le Temps” and “Agefi”). He has participated several times in the STS (Science and Technology for Society) forum in Kyoto (by selective invitation only).

In 2015, he was elected a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.