Andreas Güntner

Andreas Güntner is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Sensing at ETH Zürich, a Research Associate at the University Hospital Zürich and Editor of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. Before, he served as CEO and co-founder of Alivion AG that has successfully commercialized the first handheld methanol detector with clients in 26 countries in the food, oil & gas, health and transportation industries. In 2022, Andreas returned to academia and founded the Human-centered Sensing Laboratory at ETH Zürich that works on micro/nanosystems and their application as molecular sensors to design breath analyzers for medical diagnostics and monitoring. Andreas has published ca. 50 original research articles in leading journals (e.g. Nature Food, Nature Commun., Advanced Materials, Chemical Reviews, Angew. Chemie, Advanced Science) and has been frequently featured by news outlets around the world (100+ since 2016). His scientific and entrepreneurial activities have been recognized by several awards, including ERC Starting Grant, Emerging Technology Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Beiersdorf Excellence Award in Product Design and Engineering by the European Fed. Chem. Eng., Association for Aerosol Research (GAeF) PhD Award and the De Vigier Award.