2008-2011 

 Self-healing cellular architectures for bio-inspired highly reliable electronic systems

Role:	Co-Investigator
Funding:	EPSRC

 Collaborations with:
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

2003-2009 

 Architectures and design methodologies for bio-inspired computing machines

Role:	Project leader Head of the Cellular Architectures Research Group (CARG)
Funding:	Swiss National Science Foundation subsidy

 Collaborations with:
STMicroelectronics, Milan, Italy
Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
University of York, York, UK

1994-2005 

 Embryonics (embryonic electronics)

Role:	Direction of research group (since 2002)
Funding:	Co-applicant (with Prof. D. Mange) for Swiss National Science Foundation subsidies

 Responsible for collaboration with:
University of York, York, England
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland
Daimler-Chrysler, Dresden, Germany

 Reconfigurable POEtic Machines

Role:	Work-package leader
Funding:	European Community project, Information Society Technologies (IST) program

 Collaboration with:
University of York, York, England
Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

 Development of the BioWall reconfigurable computing tissue

Role:	Participant, with D. Mange, A. Stauffer, C. Teuscher, F. Vannel, Y. Thoma
Funding:	Villa Reuge Foundation, Switzerland

 Collaboration with:
Villa Reuge Museum, Ste-Croix, Switzerland

1998-2001 

 Development of a repairable field-programmable gate array

Role:	Main scientist
Funding:	Japanese MITI project, Real-World Computing Partnership initiative

 Responsible for collaboration with:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Tsukuba, Japan

1998-1999 

 Processor architectures inspired by biology

Role:	Main scientist
Funding:	Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy

 Collaboration with:
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy