Dr. Walter Huber is a well-known expert in the field of biosensors and spectroscopy. After joining Hoffmann-La Roche in 1987 as Project Leader for the development of optical biosensors based on waveguide technologies, he became Section Head Optical Spectroscopy in 1996. In 2011 he was awarded the position of Distinguished Scientist responsible for label-free applications, specifically SPR. Walter Huber received his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Basel where he also lectures as Privatdozent. He retired from Roche at the end of 2014.
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