Niels Quack is currently serving as Academic Director of the Research and Prototype Foundry at the University of Sydney. He received the M.Sc. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2005, and the Dr.Sc. degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland, in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, he was Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar with the Integrated Photonics Laboratory, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2014 to 2015, he was Senior MEMS Engineer with Sercalo Microtechnology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. From 2015 to 2021, he was SNSF Assistant Professor at EPFL and in 2022 he joined The University of Sydney, Australia, as Associate Professor in Micro- and Nanosystems. He is a Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) and served as General Chair of the IEEE OMN 2018 and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics. He has served as Committee Member for the most prestigious conferences in the field, including ECOC, MEMS, CLEO, SPIE OPTO, Transducers or MNE. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and for the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM).