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Nava Setter

Nava Setter obtained B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. degree in Solid State Science from the Pennsylvania State University USA in 1980. She worked in the area of electronic materials at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, at the Physics Department in University of Oxford, at the Chemistry Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and in Haifa, Israel. Since 1989 she has been a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the Ceramics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL). Her scientific research interests are non linear dielectrics for high frequencies, relaxor ferroelectrics, piezoelectric/ferroelectric thin films, and small structures for sensors and actuators and for applications in electronics. Other interests include education at the university and the secondary school levels. She has authored and coauthored over 350 scientific papers in the area of electronic materials for information and communication technologies and for Microsystems, and edited and coauthored a number of books in these fields. She has been member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences since 1995, received the SKORE-A award in 2001, the ISIF outstanding achievement award in 2003, the Ferroelectrics-IEEE recognition award in 2004, served as the distinguished lecturer of the UFFC-IEEE during 2005, and was nominated academician of the WAC (World Academy of Ceramics) on 2006.