Henry Baltes is Professor of Physical Electronics at ETH Zurich since 1988. He is the Director of the Physical Electronics Laboratory active in CMOS-based bioelectronic, chemical, and physical micro and nano sensor systems and a co-founder of the spin-off company SENSIRION. He held visiting appointments at Stanford University, the University of Waterloo, Ritsumeikan University, the University of Bologna, and the University of Freiburg. Prior to 1988, he held the Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, where he was Acting President of the Alberta Microelectronics Centre and