Markus Laubscher

Biography

Markus Laubscher is a senior scientist at the Philips corporate research laboratories in Eindhoven (Netherlands). He has been working with Philips since 2005 on public health issues, first from a purely technology perspective, then gradually more and more from a business and social perspective. Concerned by the ongoing human suffering caused by infectious diseases like malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis,he has initiated the development of an improved diagnostic tool and is currently leading a project team of six researchers working in the Netherlands and India, collaborating with two Indian hospitals.
In Philips, Mr. Laubscher is also active as a member of the corporate sustainability network, participating in the definition and implementation of a sustainability innovation strategy and supporting the R&D community with metrics for evaluating green projects.
Fascinated by the growing global movement of cultural creatives, creative communities and social entrepreneurs, he is experimenting on a small scale with community building and low impact living. Each summer together with his wife and children he welcomes volunteers from across Europe to live and work together for a few weeks in the Bulgarian mountains.
Mr. Laubscher has a master’s degree in physics from the University Karlsruhe and the Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble. He obtained a PhD in biomedical optics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

This biography was last updated on September 19, 2008