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Prof. Sven Hirsch PhD

Prof. Sven Hirsch

Prof. Sven Hirsch PhD

ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Fachstelle Computational Health
Schloss 1
8820 Wädenswil

+41 (0) 58 934 54 44
sven.hirsch@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Teaching

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Biomedical Modeling and Simulation, Digital Patient Twin, Digital Health

Medical imaging analysis & diagnostics systems, Modelling of biomedical processes, Data assimilation and machine intelligence, Sensor and time series analysis

multi-physics multi-scale continuum models in biomedical applications (CFD, structural mechanics, reaction models), system dynamics

model generation & aesthetics
Implications of digital media and technology on society

Chair for Sciences in the Board of Foundation Insel Hombroich
www.inselhombroich.de

Experience

  • Right to confer PhD UZH
    University Zurich
    12 / 2023 - today
  • Head of Center for Computational Health
    ZHAW, Institute of Computational Life Sciences
    01 / 2022 - today
  • Group Head Biomedical Simulation
    ZHAW, Institute of Applied Simulation
    09 / 2013 - 12 / 2021
  • Media artist
    self-employed
    01 / 2000 - 09 / 2019
  • Senior Foresight Consultant, Head of Quantification
    Z_punkt, The foresight company
    05 / 2008 - 06 / 2017
  • Group Leader Biomedical Simulation
    ETH Zurich, Computer vision lab (Prof. Székely)
    07 / 2008 - 08 / 2013
  • Project lead holographic topometry
    ViRad Imaging/Uniklinik Düsseldorf/caesar Bonn
    02 / 2007 - 08 / 2008
  • Assistent holographic facial topometry
    Kantonspital Basel
    10 / 2003 - 01 / 2007

Education

  • PhD / Laser Physics
    University Düsseldorf
    09 / 2003 - 01 / 2007
  • Postgrad. Master / Audiovisual Media
    Acedemy for Media Arts, Cologne
    09 / 1999 - 09 / 2002
  • Physicist, Digital Image Processing and Physiology / Physics
    University Heidelberg
    09 / 1993 - 07 / 1998
  • Vordiplom / Physics
    University Mainz
    10 / 1991 - 08 / 1993

Continuing Education

  • CAS Leadership & Governance for Higher Education
    University of Zurich
    07 / 2023
  • Professor
    ZHAW
    06 / 2016
  • CAS didactics for higher education
    PH Zurich
    07 / 2015
  • PhD Laser Physics
    Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
    01 / 2007

Membership of networks

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Other publications
Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

S Hirsch, P Burggraf, C Daheim. Scenario Planning with Integrated Quantification – Managing Uncertainty in Corporate Strategy Building. Foresight (2013)

S Hirsch, C Daheim. The meaning of clean electricity. Yearbook World Future Society (2012)

S Hirsch, P Burggraf. Quantifizierte Szenarien. Zukunftsmanager, online Publikation (2012)

S Hirsch, C Daheim. Zur Zukunft der Stromversorgung. Swissfuture (2011)

Christoph Russ, Simon Sündermann, Sven Hirsch, Volkmar Falk, Gabor Székely, Michael Gessat. On the Effect of Anatomy-based Multi-material Model Simulation of the Aortic Root. 4th International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy (2013)

Julien Egger, Ajit S. Mallik, Dominik Szczerba, Daniel A. Rüfenacht, Gabor Székely, Sven Hirsch. Spatial stabilization strategies applied to multiphysics modeling of blood clotting using a modified PTT model. International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2013 (2013)

Kulcsár Z, Augsburger L, Reymond P, Pereira VM, Hirsch S, Mallik AS, Millar J, Wetzel SG, Wanke I, Rüfenacht DA. Flow diversion treatment: intra-aneurismal blood flow velocity and WSS reduction are parameters to predict aneurysm thrombosis. Acta Neurochir (Wien) (2012)

Matthias Schneider, Johannes Reichold, Bruno Weber, Gábor Székely, Sven Hirsch. Tissue Metabolism Driven Arterial Tree Generation. Medical Image Analysis (2012)

Sven Hirsch, Johannes Reichold, Matthias Schneider, Gábor Székely, Bruno Weber. Topology and hemodynamics of the cortical cerebrovascular system. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab (2012)

S. Hirsch, B. Lloyd, D. Szczerba, G. Székely. A Multiscale Simulation Framework for Modeling Solid Tumor Growth with an Explicit Vessel Network. Multiscale Cancer Imaging, T. Deisboeck and G. Stamatsakos, Ed., Chapman & Hall /CRC (2010)

Matthias Schneider, Sven Hirsch, Gábor Székely, Bruno Weber, Bjoern H. Menze. Oblique Random Forests for 3-D Vessel Detection Using Steerable Filters and Orthogonal Subspace Filtering. MICCAI Workshop on Medical Computer Vision 2012 (2012)

Matthias Schneider, Sven Hirsch, Bruno Weber, Gábor Székely. Physiologically Based Construction of Optimized 3-D Arterial Tree Models. MICCAI 2011 (2011)

Bryn A. Lloyd, Sven Hirsch, Gabor Székely. Optimization of Case-specific Vascular Tree Models Based on Vessel Size Imaging. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation - ISBMS10 (2010)

Sven Hirsch, Dominik Szczerba, Bryn Lloyd, Michael Bajka, Niels Kuster, Gabor Székely. A Mechano-Chemical Model of a Solid Tumor for Therapy Outcome Predictions. Computational Science - ICCS 2009 (2009)


F Prieels, S Hirsch, P Hering. Holographic topometry for a dense visualisation of soft tissue for facial reconstruction. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology (2009)

S Hirsch. Holographie als Messtechnik in der Medizin. Das holographische Wissen, Ed. Schröter und Rieger, diaphanes, Berlin, (2009)

A Thelen, S Frey, S Hirsch, P Hering. Improvements in shape-from-focus for holographic reconstructions with regard to focus operators, neighborhood-size, and height value interpolation. IEEE Trans Image Process, Vol.18, No.1 (2009)

S Hirsch. Digital and Analog Hologram Tomography for Medical Applications. Dissertation, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf (2007)

S Hirsch et al. Single-Pulsed Digital Holographic Topometry Novel Optical Instrumentation for Biomedical Applications. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6631, 66310I (2007)

S Hirsch et al. Ultrafast Holographic 3D Facial Topometry and Digital Reconstruction. In: Buzug et al. (Eds); Facial Reconstruction - Gesichtsrekonstruktion, BKA series: Police and Research 35 (2007)

S Heintz, S Hirsch, A Thelen, P Hering. Three-dimensional surface measurement using digital holography with pulsed lasers. Advances in Medical Engineering, Vol. 114, pp. 435-440 (2007)

S Frey, A Thelen, S Hirsch, P Hering. Generation of digital textured surface models from hologram recordings. Applied Optics, Vol. 46, No. 11, pp. 1986-1993 (2007)

R Bakanas, GA Gudaitis, SJ Zacharovas, DB Ratcliffe, S Hirsch, S Frey, A Thelen, N Ladriere, P Hering. Using a portable holographic camera in cosmetology. Journal of Optical Technology, Vol. 73, No. 7, pp. 457-461 (2006)

S Frey, A Thelen, S Hirsch, P Hering. Shape measurement using pulsed optical holography. Laser Technik Journal, No. 1, pp. 42-45 (2006)



K Schwenzer-Zimmerer, S Hirsch, T Seewald, P Hering. Holographic facial capturing for baby cleft patients. Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery 34(1):119-119 (2006)

S Hirsch, et. al. Facial topometry using pulsed holography. In: Advances in Display Holography, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Display Holography (2006)

N Ladriere, S Frey, A Thelen, S Hirsch, J Bongartz, D Giel, P Hering. Ultraschnelle holografische Gesichtsprofilvermessung mit vollautomatischer Hologrammentwicklung
Aktuelle Methoden der Laser-und Medizinphysik, 272-274 (2005)

S Frey, H Gill-Robinson, A Thelen, S Hirsch, N Ladriere, P Hering. Holographic surface imaging for archaeological applications, J. Biol. Res 80, 39-41 (2005)

M Hoch, S Mann. Fuzzy-Based Person Tracking in Real-Time. Computer Graphics International, 201-208 (2000)

D Uttenweiler, C Veigel, R Steubing, C Goetz, S Mann, H Haußecker, B Jaehne, & RHA Fink. Motion determination in actin filament !uorescence images with a spatio-temporal orientation analysis method. Biophys. J., 78: 2709-2715 (2000)

D Uttenweiler, C Veigel, R Steubing, C Goetz, S Mann, H Haußecker, B Jaehne, & RHA Fink. A spatio-temporal orientation method for analyzing actin filament sliding velocity in the in vitro motility assay. Biophys. J., 78(1):1474 (2000)

M Hoch, S Mann. Fuzzy-Based Person Tracking in Real-Time. Computer Graphics International, 201-208 (2000)

S Mann. Objektbasierte Bildfolgenanalyse zur Bewegungsbestimmung im in vitro Motility Assay unter Verwendung eines Strukturtensorverfahrens. Diplomarbeit (1998)