Laurent Miéville, PhD, MBA
After graduating in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Laurent Miéville completed a Ph.D. at the University of Geneva where he studied the growth and the properties of superconducting thin films and multilayers. He spent the next three years in the US, first at Stanford University as group leader, and then at a young start-up company, Conductus, where he was involved in the realization of electronic superconducting devices for medical imagery and telecommunications. Parallel to these activities, he was a scientific consultant in the evaluation of the commercial potential of new technologies for Glenwood partners, a capital venture firm.
In October 1998, he founded Unitec, the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Geneva, and heads the office. He is president of the European Association of Science and Technology Transfer Professionnals (ASTP) and co-founder of the Swiss Technology Transfer association (SWITT) as well as member of the American association of University Technology Transfer managers (AUTM) and the Licensing executive society (LES). He is also one the first technology transfer professionals to be certified at the international level as "Certified Licensing Professional".
