Niels Quack received his Master of Science degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005 and his doctoral degree from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) in 2010.
From 2011 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral and Visiting Researcher at the Integrated Photonics Laboratory and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) at the University of California, Berkeley.
From 2014 to 2015, he worked as a Senior MEMS Engineer at Sercalo Microtechnology in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
From 2015 to 2021, he held a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at EPFL. In 2022, he became Associate Professor of Micro- and Nanosystems at the University of Sydney, Australia.
From 2024, he served as Academic Director of the Research and Prototype Foundry at the University of Sydney. Since April 2025, he has been an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney.
Prof. Quack's current research encompasses micro- and nanosystems engineering, with a particular focus on micro- and nanofabrication techniques, novel materials, and the integration of mechanics and photonics at the micro- and nanoscale.
These innovative micro- and nanosystems have applications in fiber-optic communication systems, data centers and high-performance computing, quantum sensing and information processing, and space communications.
Prof. Quack has authored more than 150 journal articles and conference papers and has filed seven patent applications.
He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and Senior Editor of the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM).
He serves on the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) and was General Chair of IEEE OMN 2018 and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics.
He has served, or continues to serve, on the technical program committees of several international conferences, including ECOC, IEEE MEMS, CLEO, SPIE OPTO, Transducers, and MNE.
In 2024, Prof. Quack was recognized by Electro Optics as one of the Top 100 Innovators in Photonics. He received the Supervisor of the Year Award from the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) in 2023 and the Sydney Research Accelerator Prize in 2022.
In April 2025, Prof. Dr. Niels Quack assumed the position of Managing Director of the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS).
Prof. Quack is an SPIE Fellow, an Optica Fellow, an IEEE Senior Member, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
