Zurich Instruments AG

Zurich Instruments, the first spin-off company of BEL, has been founded on April 3rd, 2008 in Zurich by two BEL collaborators, Sadik Hafizovic and Flavio Heer.

The company develops and markets high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis. The applications include:

• scientific instrumentation for research in electrical engineering, physics and communication technologies
  
• medical instrumentation for high-resolution magnetic-resonance imaging
• bioelectronic and bioimpedance measurements in life sciences.

The foundational technology was developed at BEL, ETH Zurich, during a collaborative interdisciplinary project, started in 2004. The project required the recovery of minute signals in an extremely noisy environment in single-cell impedance measurements, which was not possible using commercially available instrumentation. Therefore, digital multi-frequency lock-in amplifier technology was devised in the course of the project. The performance of the respective digital lock-in amplifiers was outstanding and triggered further intensive research and development, which provided the basis of the technology and intellectual property of Zurich Instruments.

Zurich Instruments AG was formed to respond to the apparent business opportunity in a global market. Zurich Instruments is an official ETH spin-off and is  supported by the Swiss Commission of Technology and Innovation, CTI, the Swiss Volkswirtschaftsstiftung, the Venture Kick business competition and private initiatives.

Open Positions:

You enjoy working at the cutting edge of technology and science? You are eager to acquire new skills? Then, Zurich Instruments may have a position for you, have a look at their open positions.