Dr. Benedikt Oswald has been trained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) as an electric engineer (Dipl. El. Ing. ETH) and has subsequently obtained his PhD at ETHZ with a thesis on the full-wave solution of inverse electromagnetic problems. He then accepted a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University, German, where he implemented a 3-dimensional finite element time domain solver for the electric field vector wave equation. This solver was built to run on massively parallel supercomputer cluster computers.

Dr. Oswald then joined the Paul Scherrer Institute’s (PSI) Large Research Facilities division as a senior researcher where he worked on 3-dimensional electrodynamics solver codes both in the time and frequency domain. He also co-supervised a PhD thesis on the extension of an electromagnetic eigenvalue solver into the plasmonic regime.

Dr. Oswald then joined the deep technology startup LSPR AG where he established the development of clean-room based advanced nanofabrication processes in order to implement wafer-scale fabrication of plasmonic structures for the detection of the nucleotides that compose DNA using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. This process was based on his experience in computational electrodynamics Code development.

In 2025 Dr. Oswald established his own company with a focus on the development of the next generation of electromagnetics solvers. Here, the focus is on developing solvers which are capable of solving electromagnetic problems of a size beyond anything which can be accomplished by existing codes.

The D3D VIEQ code has become operational recently. D3D VIEQ, for example,is capable to compute the full-wave solution for full-size next generation drone models.