Philipp Schneider

Philipp is part of the UK Science & Technology Network (STN) and based at the British Embassy in Berne. He maintains the UK government’s science and innovation interests in Switzerland and facilitates bilateral collaboration in research and innovation working closely with the Swiss government and S&I actors. Through his work, he supports the delivery of the UK Swiss Memorandum of Understanding on Collaboration in Research and Innovation. STN Switzerland’s sectoral priorities cover Life Sciences, Energy and Cleantech, Research Security, as well as Emerging Technologies incl. AI, Engineering Biology, Quantum, Semiconductors, and Space.

Previously, Philipp served as Principal Scientist at the Competence Unit High-Performance Vision Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology (2021-2024). Philipp is a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton, UK, where he was Academic Director of the μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre and Professor of Biomedical Imaging (2013-2023). Philipp is a physicist and medical physicist with a PhD in biomedical engineering from ETH Zurich (2007).