Dr Cadarso was born in 1981 in Sabadell (Barcelona). He studied Physics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and received his PhD in Dec. 2008 in the National Centre for Microelectronics (IMB-CNM). His work was awarded both by the Catalan Society of Technology and the UAB physics department. In 2009 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) as a Marie Curie Fellow under the mentoring of Prof Jürgen Brugger.
Since April 2013, Dr Víctor J. Cadarso is researcher in the Polymer Nanotechnology Group in the Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology (LMN) at the Paul Scherrer Insitut (PSI) in the frame of an Ambizione Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). His research is focused in a multidisciplinary domain involving micro and nanotechnology, polymeric materials, optics and photonics, microfluidics, sensing applications, lab-on-a-chip and integrated systems.