Dr. Karin Diez
Dr. Karin Diez
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Competency Group Hospitality & Service Management
Reidbach
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
Lecturer, Research and Consulting
Focus
Hospital planning, organizational planning, project management, process planning, Facility Management, sustainability
Experience
Planning Group Medicine, staff unit at the board of directors, responsible for the strategic infrastructure development of the hospital and the medical faculty
Heidelberg University Hospital
11 / 2011 - 09 / 2023
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Phd / Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
07 / 2002 - 07 / 2010 - Dipl.-Ing. / Architecture
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
10 / 1993 - 06 / 1999
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Awards
- Best (PhD) Student Paper Award
CIB W 70 Conference
06 / 2008 - 2. price "Best FM researcher Award"
European Facility Management Conference
06 / 2008
Projects
- An integrated, data-driven Smart Real Estate life cycle benchmark as a foundation for innovative delivery models in the real estate sector / Team member / ongoing
- Evaluation and Analysis of Strategic Management Indicators for Healthcare Properties / Co-project leader / ongoing
- Robotics to support nursing home residents with dementia / Project leader / completed
- Zipp & Scan / Project leader / completed
Publications
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Merkle, T., Diez, K., Kramer, I., & Ottenbacher, M. (2025, May 29). Zipp & Scan : revolutionizing patient belongings management in same-day surgery – a pilot study from Switzerland. APacCHRIE 2025 Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 27-30 May 2025.
Other publications
- Diez, K., Kramer, I., Merkle, T., & Zigan, N. (2025). Zipp & Scan-Prozess am Kantonsspital Baden zur Optimierung des Effektenhandlings von Same-Day-Surgery-Patient:innen. Spotlight FMplus, Zürich, Schweiz, 30.-31. Januar 2025.
- Diez, K., & Pericin Häfliger, I. (2025). Wissen um Prozesse für eine nachhaltige Zukunft. Heime und Spitäler, 2025(3), 36–37. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34081
- Diez, K., Gerber, N., Zigan, N., & Quasdorf, T. (2025). Abschlussbericht Robotik zur Unterstützung von Pflegeheimbewohnenden mit Demenz. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34231
- Merkle, T., Diez, K., Gerber, N., & Jeanfavre, E. (2024). Innovationsforschung im Bereich Gästeservice / Hotellerie in Spitälern. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29836
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Gerber, N., Diez, K., Zigan, N., & Sandamirskaya, Y. (2025, May 22). Demenz und Robotics. RobotCare Zukunftsworkshop «Weiterentwicklung von Sozialen Robotern für den Einsatz in der Demenzversorgung», Zürich, Schweiz, 22. Mai 2025.
- Diez, K., & Bernegger, H. (2024, October 12). Zertifizierung von Gesundheitsbauten nach SGNI/DGNB. 14. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Bern, Schweiz, 10.-12. Oktober 2024.
- Gerber, N., & Diez, K. (2024, June 13). Robots as service providers : insight into current application projects from an organizational and user perspective. Robotics in Healthcare – Current Uses and Future Challenges, Zurich, Switzerland, 13 June 2024. https://harmony-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4_Robots-as-service-providers_Gerber-Diez.pdf
- Diez, K., & Rothe, F. (2023, October). Universitäre Spitzenmedizin in Heidelberg – Zielbild und Projektdynamik : wieviel High Tech steckt in der Kardiologie der Zukunft? 13. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 19.-21. Oktober 2023.