My research

I am a translational scientist and a passionate promoter of digitalization in health care. As founding director I head the Center for Computational Health at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). I am a trained laser physicist and hold a postgradual degree in audiovisual media. My scientific work focusses on the modelling of complex biomedical systems. We extract information from various clinical data sources (MR, CT, EEG, wearable, categorial data) and combine statistical approaches like machine learning with mechanistic modelling to create digital patient twins.

Further, I direct the ZHAW digital health lab, a university-wide interdisciplinary collaborative platform that innovates patient-centered data-driven health care. The initiative has gained Swiss–wide recognition with a very successul annual conference and with several big collaborative research grants won.

I have been a successful media artist following a prostgraduate training at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). Following, I was active with numerous international exhibitions and cooperative works of audiovisual installations, dance pieces, radio plays, and experimental musical performances. I tirelessly contribute to the science-society dialoge with public talks and actively cultivate this dialoge. Still today, I am trustee for sciences at the reknown art institution Stiftung Insel Hombroich where I also curate an art-science program.

IAS Fellowship

In this project I will explore aesthetical representations of digital twins in healthcare (DTH) technology, founding it in an ethical discourse and initiate a public discourse on this very relevant topic. I will collaborate with ethicists, scientists, physicians and artists/designers to give this technology a face.