Dr. Daniel Sanz Pont
Dr. Daniel Sanz Pont
Staff of Professorship for Construction Materials
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Daniel Sanz Pont is a senior scientific researcher and lecturer at the Physical Chemistry of Building Materials Group. He joined the group in March 2016.
He currently performs research on aerogel building elements via digital fabrication, starting from material development and processing, up to its application into elements for the building enclosure, including all aspects of the performance and building physics. Daniel Sanz Pont joined the NCCR Digital Fabrication in March 2016.
He obtained a master’s degree in environment and bioclimatic architecture in 2006 and a master degree in building construction quality in 2008 at the Polytechnik University of Madrid (PUM), Spain. In February, 2016, he obtained his international PhD from PUM with the thesis entitled “Thermal and Mechanical behavior of Gypsum with Silica Aerogels”. Since July 2014, he had already developed part of his PhD research at ETH Zurich, hosted by Prof. Dr. Robert J. Flatt.
His co-authored research paper titled "Anhydrite/aerogel composites for thermal insulation", published in the journal Materials & Structures in November 2015, was selected by RILEM within the best 10 papers of the year 2016.
Besides his research at ETH Zurich, Daniel Sanz Pont also worked as Chief of Technology Officer for 3 years (Sep 2020 - Aug 2023) at Agitec AG, the main Swiss retailer of aerogel insulation in Switzerland.