Martina Hirayama

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Martina Hirayama (born 1970) is a German-Swiss chemist , university professor and State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) of Switzerland since 2019 .

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Martina Hirayama grew up in Germany and went to school. She studied chemistry from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Freiburg and from 1991 to 1994 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . In 1994 she completed her diploma thesis on polymers at the Imperial Collage London . She then returned to ETH Zurich, where she received her doctorate in 1997 at the Institute for Polymers on the “Production and characterization of thin and ultra-thin layers on inorganic surfaces through oxidative addition and activation of chemically inert bonds” and worked as a research assistant . From 2001 she was responsible for the group “Polymers on Surfaces” at the Institute for Polymers. Hirayama also completed a postgraduate degree in business administration - now known as the MAS in Management, Technology and Economics - at D-MTEC at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

Hirayama has focused on application-oriented research and is involved in several patents. She founded a start-up for coating technologies and switched to teaching at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHAW), where she headed the School of Engineering as director from 2011 and also took over the international department from 2014.

Martina Hirayama has been President of the Institute Council of the Federal Institute for Metrology since 2012; since 2011 Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Innosuisse funding agency and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation .

Martina Hirayama has been State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) since January 1, 2019. In this role, she is in charge of 280 employees and is responsible for an annual budget of CHF 4.5 billion. On her agenda in this position are the topics of innovation in education and research as well as digitization. It is also responsible for research cooperation with the EU.

Martina Hirayama has had dual citizenship since 2009 , she is the mother of two children, married and lives in Hüttwilen in Thurgau .

In 2019 Martina Hirayama took part in the Bilderberg Conference .

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  1. ↑ Federal Council appoints Martina Hirayama as SERI's new State Secretary. SERI, July 4, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Jörg Krummenacher: State Secretary Hirayama on Horizon, universities, vocational training . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 25, 2019 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 22, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Martina Hirayama. AcademiaNet, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Norbert Straub: So that the BFI chemistry is right . In: ETH Zurich (ed.): Globe . No. 4/2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Dennis Bühler, Christof Moser: The ETH management made mistakes. Republic, June 25, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Federal Council appoints Martina Hirayama as SERI's new State Secretary. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  7. ^ Matthias Daum: Women: State Secretary and Board Member . Ed .: Die Zeit. January 7, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de ).
  8. ↑ Participants 2019. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
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SURNAME Hirayama, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss chemist, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation
DATE OF BIRTH 1970