Tobias Kippenberg joined EPFL (CH) in 2008 from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching (DE). At EPFL, he has been Full Professor in the Institute of Physics and Electrical Engineering since 2013. While at MPQ he demonstrated radiation pressure cooling of optical micro-resonators, and developed ways of cooling, measuring and manipulating mechanical oscillators in the quantum regime that are now part of the research field of cavity quantum optomechanics. His group also discovered the generation of optical frequency combs using high Q micro-resonators, a principle known now as micro-combs or Kerr combs. For his contributions to these research fields, he received the EFTF Award for Young Scientists (2011), the Helmholtz Prize in Metrology (2009), the EPS Fresnel Prize (2009), an ICO Award (2014), the Swiss Latsis Prize (2015), the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award in Physics (2015) and the ZEISS Research Award (2018). Tobias was one of the top 1% most highly-cited physicists, 2014-2018. He is also founder of LIGENTEC SA, an integrated photonics foundry in Switzerland