Dr. Marcel Dettling

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer & Senior Scientist for Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning

Focus

• Predictive Analytics: Regression, Classification, Time Series Analysis
• Applied Statistics: Data Analysis, Inference, Visualization
• Analysis of Complex Data: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• Application Fields: Business and Customer Analytics, Official Statistics
• Application Fields: Transportation/Accident Data, Health Economics, Social Sciences, etc.

Teaching

Lecturer at ZHAW, External Lecturer at ETH Zurich

Professional development teaching

• CAS Advanced Statistical Data Analysis
• CAS Data Analysis
• MAS Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Postdoc / Applied Statistics
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)
  09 / 2004 - 07 / 2006
• PhD / Mathematics
  Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich
  09 / 2000 - 06 / 2004
• MSc Mathematics ETH / Mathematics
  ETH Zurich
  09 / 1995 - 03 / 2000

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4340-6142

Projects

• Measuring Exposure to Bicycle Traffic / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Gender Pay Gap Analysis / Project leader / completed
• Crowdworking in Switzerland (CroWiS) - an interdisciplinary analysis taking the example of nurse crowd workers / Team member / completed
• Detailed meal forecast for the restaurant industry / Deputy project leader / completed
• Automatic Evaluation of Thermoanalytical Curves / Team member / completed
• Tools for statistical Analysis of Accident Occurrences / Deputy project leader / completed
• The burden of smoking in Switzerland: Estimate for 2015 and Prognosis up to 2050 / Team member / completed
• Development of Algorithms for the Analysis of Football Players and Game Situations based on Motion Data / Deputy project leader / completed
• Prediction of Turnover in Gastronomy / Team member / completed
• Development of a prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland / Team member / completed
• Statistical Analysis of Accident Occurrences / Deputy project leader / completed
• Energy Optimization for Vessel Operations / Project leader / completed
• Measures and potentials in the field of road users / Team member / completed
• TARPSY – Development of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care / Team member / completed
• MobileMall / Team member / completed
• PPS Paraplegiology / Team member / completed
• Predicting customer behavior by combining freetext information with structured customer data / Team member / completed
• NetSense / Team member / completed
• Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Project leader / completed
• Planning and Optimization of marketing campaigns under dyanamical customer behavior / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Dettling, M., & Liberatore, F. (2026). Work schedule preferences and shift schedules of per‐diem nurses : a descriptive cross‐sectional study of online labour platform data - empirical research quantitative. Nursing Open, 13(2), e70456. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70456
• Monstein, R., Capone, P., & Dettling, M. (2019). Determination of model structure from flight test with generalized additive models. Journal of Aircraft. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C035171
• Goren Huber, L., Kunz, S., & Dettling, M. (2018). Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels. International Journal of COMADEM, 21(3), 15–20. https://apscience.org/comadem/index.php/comadem/article/view/93
• Simoes-Wüst, P., Rist, L., & Dettling, M. (2014). Self-reported health characteristics and medication consumption by CAM-users and nonusers : a Swiss cross-sectional survey. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 20(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2012.0762
• Simões-Wüst, A. P., Rist, L., & Dettling, M. (2012). Medication use by CAM users and non-users : a Swiss cross-sectional survey. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 4, 172–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.879
• Heitz, C., Dettling, M., & Ruckstuhl, A. (2011). Modelling customer lifetime value in contractual settings. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 16(2), 172–190. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2011.042595
• Dettling, M., Gabrielson, E., & Parmigiani, G. (2005). Searching for differentially expressed gene combinations. Genome Biology, 6(R88). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-10-r88
• Teuffel, O., Dettling, M., Cario, G., Stranulla, M., Schrappe, M., Bühlmann, P., Niggli, F. K., & Schäfer, B. W. (2004). Gene expression profiles and risk stratification in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Haematologica, 89(7), 801–808. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1908
• Wachtel, M., Dettling, M., Koscielniak, E., Stegmaier, S., Treuner, J., Simon-Klingenstein, K., Bühlmann, P., Niggli, F. K., & Schäfer, B. W. (2004). Gene expression signatures identify rhabdomyosarcoma subtypes and detect a novel t(2;2)(q35;p23) translocation fusing PAX3 to NCOA1. Cancer Research, 64(16), 5539–5545. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-0844
• Dettling, M., & Bühlmann, P. (2004). Volatility and risk estimation with linear and nonlinear methods based on high frequency data. Applied Financial Economics, 14(10), 717–729. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960310042000243556
• Dettling, M., & Bühlmann, P. (2004). Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 90(1), 106–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2004.02.012
• Gentleman, R. C., Carey, V. J., Bates, D. M., Bolstad, B., Dettling, M., Dudoit, S., Ellis, B., Gautier, L., Ge, Y., Gentry, J., Hornik, K., Hothorn, T., Huber, W., Iacus, S., Irizarry, R., Leisch, F., Li, C., Maechler, M., Rossini, A. J., et al. (2004). Bioconductor : open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics. Genome Biology, 5(R80). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80
• Teuffel, O., Betts, D. R., Dettling, M., Schaub, R., Schäfer, B. W., & Niggli, F. K. (2004). Prenatal origin of separate evolution of leukemia in identical twins. Leukemia, 18, 1624–1629. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403462
• Dettling, M. (2004). BagBoosting for tumor classification with gene expression data. Bioinformatics, 20(18), 3583–3593. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth447
• Dettling, M., & Bühlmann, P. (2003). Boosting for tumor classification with gene expression data. Bioinformatics, 19(9), 1061–1069. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btf867
• Dettling, M., & Bühlmann, P. (2002). Supervised clustering of genes. Genome Biology, 3(12). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0069

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Dettling, M., & Ruckstuhl, A. (2019). Statistical modelling. In M. Braschler, T. Stadelmann, & K. Stockinger (Eds.), Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business (pp. 181–203). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_11
• Dettling, M. (2005). Classification with gene expression data. In Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor (pp. 421–430). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29362-0_24
• Hothorn, T., Dettling, M., & Bühlmann, P. (2005). Ensemble methods of computational inference. In Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor (pp. 293–311). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29362-0_17

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Bürgin, R., Vetsch-Tzogiou, C., Stucki, M., Kauer, L., Pirktl, L., van Kleef, R. C., Kohler, A., Drewek, A., Thommen, C., Dettling, M., & Wieser, S. (2024, June 7). Improving risk adjustment in Switzerland with pharmaceutical cost groups. 6th Swiss Health Economic Workshop, Lucerne, Switzerland, 7 June 2024.
• Monstein, R., Figuet, B., Krauth, T., Waltert, M., & Dettling, M. (2022). Large landing trajectory dataset for go-around analysis [Conference paper]. Engineering Proceedings, 28(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2022028002
• Dettling, M., Frey, M., Walser, M., & Haas, P. (2021). Impact of mislabelling on deep learning methods and strategies for improvement. Conference Proceedings of the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress.
• Barth, L., Sarperi, L., Dettling, M., Meierhofer, J., Bulatovic, A., & Schweiger, L. (2021). Development of a smart connected product-service-system (PSS) for the waste management ecosystem [Conference paper]. In E. Mugellini & E. Carpanzano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd FTAL Conference 2021 Sustainable Smart Cities and Regions. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25014
• Frey, M., Murina, E., Rohrbach, J., Walser, M., Haas, P., & Dettling, M. (2019). Machine learning for position detection in football [Conference paper]. 2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 111–112. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00009
• Goren Huber, L., Kunz, S., & Dettling, M. (2017). Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels [Conference paper]. 30th Conference for Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Lancashire, United Kingdom, July 2017, 357–365.
• Heitz, C., Ruckstuhl, A., & Dettling, M. (2010). Customer lifetime value under complex contract structures [Conference paper]. In J.-H. Morin, J. Ralyté, & M. Snene (Eds.), Exploring services science : first international conference, IESS 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, february 17-19, 2010 - revised papers (pp. 276–281). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14319-9_24

Other publications

• Liesen, C., Dettling, M., & Lanfranchi, A. (2025). Evaluation der Kostenentwicklung Sonderpädagogik im Kanton Tessin : externe Analyse im Auftrag der Sektion für Sonderpädagogik. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35220
• Liberatore, F., Klumb, P., Simon, M., Zwettler, C., Gahrmann, C., Shad, M. A., Schmelzer, S., Demir, E., & Dettling, M. (2025). Temporärarbeit in der Pflege in der Schweiz : Status Quo, Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5550
• Bürgin, R., Stucki, M., Vetsch-Tzogiou, C., Kauer, L., Kohler, A., Drewek, A., Thommen, C., Dettling, M., & Wieser, S. (2024). Wirkungsanalyse zum Risikoausgleich mit pharmazeutischen Kostengruppen (PCG) : Schlussbericht. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30489
• Deublein, M., Hafsteinsson, H., Frey, M., Dettling, M., Meier, L., & Kalisch, M. (2018). Statistische Analyse von Unfallzahlen. Bundesamt für Strassen. https://www.astra.admin.ch/dam/astra/de/bilder/Abteilung_Strassenverkehr_allgemein/2018-07-31_VSS1634_Schlussbericht_Statistische_Analyse_von_Unfallzahlen.pdf
• Goren Huber, L., Dettling, M., Kunz, S., & Gsponer, D. (2017). Predictive Maintenance zum effizienten Betrieb von Hochsee-Schiffen. fmpro service, 9–11.
• Ohnmacht, T., Lutzenberger, M., Schad, H., Frey, M., Ruckstuhl, A., Dettling, M., & Rößger, L. (2016). Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M, Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende (Hochschule Luzern - Wirtschaft & Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI), eds.). Bundesamt für Strassen.
• Ohnmacht, T., Mahrer, M., Frey, M., Ruckstuhl, A., Dettling, M., Rößger, L., & Schade, H. (2016). Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende : Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M (V. E. u. K. U. Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt & Bundesamt für Strassen, eds.). Schweizerischer Verband der Strassen- und Verkehrsfachleute (VSS).
• Heitz, C., Bütikofer, S., & Dettling, M. (2014). Customers as investment objects : a new perspective on marketing [Conference paper]. Conference Proceedings of the 13th International Science-to-Business Marketing Conference on Cross Organizational Value Creation, 257–271. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1888
• Ohnmacht, T., Lutzenberger, M., Schad, H., Frey, M., Ruckstuhl, A., Dettling, M., Rößger, L., & Schade, J. (2014). Einflüsse von Mensch und Gesellschaft auf das Strassenunfallgeschehen : Phase 1: Vol. Digital Mobility. Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI).
• Kool, J., Dettling, M., Wieser, S., & Brügger, U. (2013). Development of a patient classification system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland. Swiss Health Economics Workshop, Luzern, 13. September 2013.
• Widmer, P., Buhl, T., Ruckstuhl, A., Dettling, M., & Rüeger, S. (2011). Neue Erkenntnisse zum Mobilitätsverhalten dank Data Mining. Bundesamt für Strassen. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4215
• Kool, J., Wieser, S., Dettling, M., & Brügger, U. (2009). Entwicklung eines Patientenklassifikationssystems (PCS) für die Rehabilitation in der Schweiz. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
• Ho, Y.-Y., Cope, L., Dettling, M., & Parmigiani, G. (2007). Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed gene combinations. In Methods in molecular biology (pp. 171–191). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-547-3_10
• Dettling, M. (2005). Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data and combining them with clinical predictor variables. Proceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute.
• Dettling, M. (2003). Revealing predictive gene clusters with supervised algorithms. Proceedings of the Conference in Distributed Statistical Computing. https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/Dettling.pdf
• Dettling, M. (2002). Supervised clustering of genes. Compstat : Proceedings in Computational Statistics.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Dettling, M., Walser, M., & Frey, M. (2021, July 13). Impact of mislabelling on deep learning. 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, Virtual, 11-16 July 2021.
• Mattli, R., Farcher, R., Dettling, M., Syleouni, M.-E., & Wieser, S. (2020). The burden of smoking in Switzerland : estimation for 2015 and prognosis until 2050 [Conference presentation]. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 2020(6). https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/128412
• Keller, P., Riguzzi, M., Dettling, M., & Wieser, S. (2017). Prospective payment for inpatient psychiatric care : a system to be developed for Switzerland. Thirteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, Venice, Italy, 24-26 March 2017.
• Mattli, R., Schmidt, M., Wirz, M., & Dettling, M. (2017). Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland. 2017 International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Biennial World Congress, Boston, USA, 8-11 July 2017.
• Riguzzi, M., Keller, P., Dettling, M., & Wieser, S. (2016). Prospective payment for inpatient psychiatric care : a system to be developed for Switzerland. EuHEA Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 13-16 July 2016.
• Riguzzi, M., Wieser, S., Dettling, M., & Pletscher, M. (2015). Introducing cost groups and prospective payment to Swiss inpatient psychiatry. iHEA 11th World Congress in Health Economics, Milano, Italy, 12-15 July 2015.
• Riguzzi, M., Wieser, S., Dettling, M., & Pletscher, M. (2015). Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland. 12. Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, Venice, 27-29 March 2015.
• Riguzzi, M., Wieser, S., Dettling, M., & Pletscher, M. (2015). Prospective payment in Swiss inpatient psychiatry (implementing the Health Insurance Act of 1994). Second Health Economics Workshop, Lucerne, 11 September 2015.
• Wieser, S., Dettling, M., Riguzzi, M., & Pletscher, M. (2014). Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland. International Health Economics Association Congress 2014, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014.
• Heitz, C., Hary, I., Dettling, M., & Ruckstuhl, A. (2008). Direct marketing of service contracts under autonomous customer dynamics. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2008, Washington, USA, 11-14 October 2008.

Research data

Monstein, Raphael; Figuet, Benoit; Krauth, Timothé; Waltert, Manuel; Dettling, Marcel, 2022. Large landing trajectory data set for go-around analysis. Zenodo. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7148117

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