Dr. Christoph Hofer
Dr. Christoph Hofer
ZHAW
School of Engineering
IDS Institute for Data Science
Technikumstrasse 81
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Senior lecturer in statistical data analysis and R&D project manager
Professional development teaching
- WBK R Boot Camp
- CAS Advanced Statistical Data Analysis
- WBK Predictive Modeling with Uncertainty: Techniques and Applications
- CAS Data Analysis
Network
Membership of networks
- Author and maintainer of the R package constrainedKriging(GNU open source project)
- Maintainer of R packages IDPmisc and SwissAir (GNU open source project)
Projects
- Next-Gen Feedback Mining: Insights and Actions through AI Dialogue / Deputy project leader / ongoing
- Statistical Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Chocolate Varieties / Project leader / completed
- Comparison of Sampling Strategies for Dynamically Introduced Substances in Surface Waters / Deputy project leader / completed
- Efficiency analysis of multiple sclerosis therapies / Deputy project leader / completed
- Statistical consulting for regional trend analyses in the soil monitoring program of the Canton of Zurich / Project leader / completed
- Therapy comparison for multiple sclerosis / Deputy project leader / completed
- COVID-AIR: Influence of the COVID-19-lockdown on Swiss air quality / Co-project leader / completed
- Prediction of Turnover in Gastronomy / Team member / completed
- Flight Network Simulation at Swiss International Air Lines / Team member / completed
- cleverpendeln / Team member / completed
- Development of a consistent approach for stock planning and allocation of Unit Load Devices (ULD) in international air transportation. / Deputy project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Templ, M., & Hofer, C. (2025). Compositional analysis of the relationships between the organic matter content and chemical and physical properties of soil. Applied Geochemistry, 193(106526). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2025.106526
- Hofer, C., Borer, F., Bono, R., Kayser, A., & Papritz, A. (2013). Predicting topsoil heavy metal content of parcels of land : an empirical validation of customary and constrained lognormal block kriging and conditional simulations. Geoderma, 193-194, 200–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.08.034
- Hofer, C., & Papritz, A. (2011). constrainedKriging : an R-package for customary, constrained and covariance-matching constrained point or block kriging. Computers & Geosciences, 37(10), 1562–1569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.009
- Hofer, C., & Papritz, A. (2010). Predicting threshold exceedance by local block means in soil pollution surveys. Mathematical Geosciences, 42(6), 631–656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-010-9287-4
- Binder, C. R., Hofer, C., Wiek, A., & Scholz, R. W. (2004). Transition towards improved regional wood flows by integrating material flux analysis and agent analysis : the case of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland. Ecological Economics, 49(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2003.10.021
Other publications
Thalmann, B., Hofer, C., Wächter, D., & Kulli, B. (2022). Per- und polyfluorierte Alkylsubstanzen (PFAS) in Schweizer Böden. altlasten spektrum, 31(6), 176–179. https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1864-8371.2022.06.05
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Bütikofer, S., & Hofer, C. (2018, September 12). Development of a consistent approach for inventory control of Unit Load Devices (ULD) in international air transportation. OR2018, Operations Research Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 12-14 September 2018.