Florian Luisier was born in 1981, in Bagnes, Switzerland. In March 2005, he received the MS degree in Microengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In January 2010, he completed his PhD in Computer, Communication, and Information Sciences within the EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group under the supervision of Prof. Thierry Blu and Prof. Michael Unser.

From 2005 to March 2010, he was a Research Assistant with the EPFL’s Biomedical Imaging Group. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. His research interests include statistical signal processing, multiresolution representations, inverse problems, and the restoration of multidimensional biomedical data.

Dr. Luisier was the recipient of a 2009 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for a paper coauthored with Prof. Thierry Blu and Prof. Michael Unser.