Martina Hirayama

Martina Hirayama (born 1970) is a German-Swiss chemist, university lecturer and, since 2019, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SBFI) in Switzerland.

She then returned to ETH Zurich, where she completed her doctorate in 1997 at the Institute for Polymers on the "Production and characterization of thin and ultra-thin layers on inorganic surfaces by oxidative addition and activation of chemically reactive bonds" and worked as a research assistant.

She founded a start-up for coating technologies[4] and moved to Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHAW) as a lecturer, where she became Director of the School of Engineering in 2011 and also took over the International Affairs department in 2014.

Martina Hirayama was President of the Institute Council of the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology;[5] Vice President of the board of directors of the Innosuisse funding agency and sat on the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

[6] Martina Hirayama has been State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SBFI) since 1 January 2019.