Felix Holzner joined the Nanofabrication Group at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich in 2009. There, he started to work on the technology and on applications of Thermal Desorption Scanning Probe Lithography. After several technological breakthroughs, Felix shortened the name of the technology to NanoFrazor and started to develop the business idea of SwissLitho. He founded SwissLitho in 2012 together with Philip Paul..
Felix is a physicist by training and received a PhD from the Department of Materials at the ETH Zurich and holds degrees in physics from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and the University of Tübingen (Germany). On the business side, Felix gathered skills in numerous intensive business courses with a highlight in June 2013: Felix was selected to join the venture leaders , a business development program in Boston for the 20 most promising Swiss startup companies.
As CEO of SwissLitho Felix managed to raise funding from various sources: The McKinsey Venture award, all three venturekick awards, the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark and the Heuberger Winterthur Jungunternehmerpreis. Furthermore, Felix holds the IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Award and an ETH Pioneer Fellowship. SwissLitho is collaborating in a Swiss CTI project and an EU R&D project.