Prof. Manuel Dömer
Prof. Manuel Dömer
ZHAW
School of Engineering
IDS Institute for Data Science
Technikumstrasse 81
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Head of Health and Environmental Analytics
- Deputy programme director Master of Science in Engineering
- Member profile commission Data Science in the Master of Science in Engineering
- EELISA Academic Coordinator ZHAW
- Co-Head ZHAW Datalab
Focus
- Data Science in Health, Life Sciences and Environment
- Data Visualisation and Storytelling
- AI-based molecular modeling and simulation
Teaching
- Lecturer in the BSc Data Science program
- Lecturer in the BSc program Applied Digital Life Sciences
- Supervisor in the Master of Science in Life Sciences - Applied Computational Life Sciences
- Supervisor in the Masters of Science in Engineering Profile Data Science
- Thesis supervision in the Master of Advanced Studies Data Science
Professional development teaching
CAS Smart Services: von datengetriebener Innovation zur digitalen Wertschöpfung
Experience
- Programme Director BSc Data Science
ZHAW School of Engineering
02 / 2021 - 07 / 2026 - Lecturer in the Master of Applied Information and Data Science
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
01 / 2019 - 12 / 2021 - Senior Data Scientist - Lead Modeling & Analytics
Swiss Re
01 / 2019 - 01 / 2021 - Data Scientist
Swiss Re
01 / 2017 - 12 / 2018 - Junior Actuary Costing Methods and Analytical Services
Swiss Re
05 / 2015 - 12 / 2016
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD / Computational Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
09 / 2008 - 05 / 2013 - Master of Science / Chemistry
Zurich University
09 / 2003 - 04 / 2008
Continuing Education
- ZHAW Internal Leadership Program
ZHAW
07 / 2025 - Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education
University for Teacher Education Zurich
06 / 2022
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- AI-Based High-Throughput Screening of Thiol-Ene/Yne Reactions for Self-Healing Materials Applications / Project leader / ongoing
- Soilspector – Computer vision-based detection of soil properties / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Doemer, Manuel, and David Kempf. 2023. "Is It Ops That Make Data Science Scientific?." Archives of Data Science, Series A 8 (2): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150238.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Dömer, Manuel, Biruk Hailesilassie, and Ipsita Panda. 2026. "Anomaly Detection for Weigh-in-Motion Sensor Health Monitoring." Conference paper. In , 217–20. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/sds70563.2026.00041.
- Wulf, Jochen, Jürg Meierhofer, and Manuel Dömer. 2026. "Designing Cost-Optimal Human-AI Workflows for Retrieval-Augmented Generation : Analytical Framework and Industrial Case Study." Conference paper. In 2026 IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science and AI (SDS), 37–44. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/sds70563.2026.00013.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Revealing the Structure of Tryptophan in Microhydrated Complexes by Cold Ion Spectroscopy
- Cold-Ion Spectroscopy Reveals the Intrinsic Structure of a Decapeptide
- Assessing the Performance of Computational Methods for the Prediction of the Ground State Structure of a Cyclic Decapeptide
- Photodynamics of Lys+-Trp Protein Motifs: Hydrogen Bonds Ensure Photostability
- Intricacies of Describing Weak Interactions Involving Halogen Atoms within Density Functional Theory
- Solvent rearrangements during the transition from hydrophilic to hydrophobic solvation
- In situ parameterisation of SCC-DFTB repulsive potentials by iterative Boltzmann inversion
- Generalized QM/MM Force Matching Approach Applied to the 11-cis Protonated Schiff Base Chromophore of Rhodopsin
- Pushing the Frontiers of First-Principles Based Computer Simulations of Chemical and Biological Systems
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