Matteo Castoldi joined the CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group in May 2011 as Technology Transfer Officer.

Matteo first came to CERN in 1997 as a M.S. student where he contributed to the thermo-mechanical design of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) cryostat components.

From 1998 to 2001 he worked as CERN associate member of the personnel both in the Surfaces and Materials Technologies Group (Engineering Support & Technology Department) and in the TOTEM Experiment (Physics Department). He developed the technological aspects related to the metallurgy of MIG and Electron Beam welding processes, and contributed to the mechanical design and integration of complex experimental devices.

From 2001 to 2010 Matteo worked in the Integrated Safety and Environment Group (OH&S Unit) as Staff member. First involved in the mechanical safety assessment and review of projects, Matteo moved to OH&S and environmental management where he developed and managed the CERN OHS&E Management System, made available Safety Rules, and served as Lead Auditor. In 2008 he was appointed Section Leader. In 2009 he became Deputy and Acting Group Leader.

Previous to joining the Knowledge Transfer Group, Matteo also served in the Human Resources Department, where he had a major role in designing and reviewing the CERN technical competency model, and in defining footprints for main/recurrent jobs and managerial roles.

Aside his role of Technology Transfer Officer, Matteo is also active in the field of fundraising for CERN in Society.

Matteo received a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (with honors) from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 1998, and an EMBA from HEC - University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2004.

Tim Tsarfati was appointed Technology Transfer Officer in 2011.

Tim joined CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group in 2011 as Technology Transfer Officer. In the preceding six years, he was involved in collaborate industrial research programs at the Fundamental Research on Matter institute FOM in The Netherlands. Projects involved photochemistry and diffusion in multilayer optics for semiconductor technology, with an increasing accent on valorisation. Following an award and a granted project, he became Technology Transfer Officer at FOM in 2009. In that position, he initiated and supervised academic/industrial collaboration and development of projects in the fields of material/surface science and renewable energy. He acquired funds and followed several courses on technology transfer and intellectual property at e.g. the European Patent Organisation.

Tim obtained M.Sc. degrees with distinction in Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy at Utrecht University in 2005, and a Ph.D. on material science in thin layers at FOM and Twente University (The Netherlands) in partnership with Carl Zeiss SMT AG (Germany) in 2009. For the industrial applicability of his research and technology transfer activities, also proven by the resulting patents, he won the FOM Valorisation Chapter Prize.

Telma Mantas is the Patent Portfolio Manager of the Knowledge Transfer Group at CERN as of 2010.

In 2005 Telma started her career in consultancy, first as a Quality Assurance Consultant and after as a Technology Services Consultant working in project management in the telecommunication field.

In 2007 she started working in Intellectual Property as a Patent Examiner at the Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial (INPI) in Portugal.

In 2009 Telma got a position at CERN as a patent Engineer.

Telma received a M.S. (5 year degree) in Technological Physics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon in 2005. In 2007 she attended several trainings in patent field including Intellectual Property Rights in Software, International Patent Classification, US Patent Practice, Patent examination and Patent searching. Since at CERN she has pursued her studies in Intellectual Property related to Technology Transfer (contract basics, confidential agreements, freedom to operate, IP due diligences , etc.)