Dr. Lukas Hollenstein

Personal profile

Management role

• Head of Research/Focus Area, Digital Labs & Production
• Head, Simulation & Optimization

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Modelling & Simulation

www.zhaw.ch/icls/digital-labs-production/

Professional development teaching

CAS in Digital Life Sciences

Expertise and research interests

Modelling, simulation and optimization of complex systems. Core topics include production and logistics systems with complex interdependences and control strategies; application of simulation based optimization methods.

Educational background

PhD Cosmology (Theoretical Physics), University of Portsmouth, UK (2009)
MSc Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich (2005)

Professional milestones

since January 2022: Co-Head Digital Labs & Production, ICLS, ZHAW
since May 2019: Head Simulation & Optimization, ICLS, ZHAW
since September 2013: Senior Lecturer, ICLS, ZHAW
2012 - 2013: Visiting Postdoc, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
2012 - 2013: Postdoc, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CEA Saclay, France
2009 - 2012: Postdoc, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Membership of networks

• ASIM Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation - Fachgruppe Simulation in Produktion und Logistik - Mitglied Vorstand, Ansprechpartner für Mitglieder in der Schweiz
• VNL Verein Netzwerk Logistik - Swiss Logistics Faculty
• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate
• Loop Frontiers
• ORCID
• Google Scholar

Projects

• Reinforcement Learning Analysis Framework / Project
• Smart Hospital – Integrierter Rahmen, Instrumente und Lösungen (SHIFT) / Project
• PE(K)O Sustain – Physikalisch modifizierte Öle als nachhaltige Alternative zu tropischen Fetten für die Back- und Süsswarenindustrie / Project
• Simulationsbasierter Vergleich einer End-to-End- und einer Platform-Konfiguration für Spritzgussanlagen / Project
• Designing Business Models for the IoT / Project
• A top-down indicator of lean-green alignment in small and medium-sized enterprises / Project
• Digitale Simulation des Impfzentrums Winterthur / Project
• Predicitve Waste Management for SBB Train Stations / Project
• Datengetriebene Entscheidungsunterstützung bei intrakraniellen Aneurysmen und in der Spitalgastronomie mittels Bayes'schen Netzwerken / Project
• Simulation Personenströme Einganszone JVA Pöschwies / Project
• Simulation & Optimization needs HPC / Project
• Complexity 4.0 / Project
• Generisches Simulations- und Planungstool für Lackieranlagen / Project
• Reihenfolgenoptimierung Simulation USM / Project
• Kooperationsplattform für die urbane Güterlogistik / Project
• Simulation Flüssig-Produktion & Logistik / Project

Publications

• Rüegg, Ramona; Schmid, Tamara; Hollenstein, Lukas; Müller, Nadina,

  2022.

  Effect of particle characteristics and foaming parameters on resulting foam quality and stability.

  LWT - Food Science and Technology.

  2022(167), pp. 113859.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2022.113859

• Heim, Edgar; Stadler, Michael; Scherrer, Maike; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2021.

  Coopetition : Kooperationen unter Mitbewerbern am Beispiel der Logistikbranche.

  Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation.

  2021(1), pp. 4-9.

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Lötscher, Adrian; Luccarini, Fabian,

  2019.

  SimLack : simulation-based optimization and scheduling of generic powder coating lines.

  Simulation Notes Europe.

  29(3), pp. 127-132.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.29.tn.10483

• Cardona, Wilmar; Hollenstein, Lukas; Kunz, Martin,

  2014.

  The traces of anisotropic dark energy in light of Planck.

  Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

  2014(7/32).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/032

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Lichtensteiger, Lukas; Stadelmann, Thilo; Amirian, Mohammadreza; Budde, Lukas; Meierhofer, Jürg; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Friedli, Thomas,

  2019.

  Unsupervised learning and simulation for complexity management in business operations

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 313-331.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_17

• Scherrer, Maike; Hollenstein, Lukas; Stadler, Michael; Heim, Edgar,

  2021.

  Towards a symbiotic mutualism through external supply chain integration [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 28th EurOMA Conference.

  EurOMA 2021 : Managing the “new normal”: the future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times, Berlin, Germany (online), 5-7 July 2021.

  European Operations Management Association.

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Lötscher, Adrian; Luccarini, Fabian,

  2018.

  SimLack: simulation-based optimization and scheduling of generic powder coating lines [paper].

  In:

  Deatcu, Christina; Schramm, Thomas; Zobel, Kay, eds.,

  Tagungsband ASIM 2018, 24. Symposium Simulationstechnik.

  24. Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2018), Hamburg, Deutschland, 4.-5. Oktober 2018.

  Wien:

  Argesim.

  pp. 45-50.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4956

• Gerber, Nicole; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2022.

  Wie die Digitalisierung den Food Service im Care Bereich erreicht.

  Clinicum.

  2022(4), pp. 79-80.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25448

• Vorburger, Robert; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2021.

  Neue Verrechnungsmodelle für die Maschinenindustrie.

  Transfer.

  2021(2), pp. 5.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23748

• Krähenbühl, Andrea; Gerber, Nicole; Höhener, Rebecca; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2021.

  Simulationen von Verpflegungsprozessen : auf Knopfdruck zur richtigen Entscheidung.

  fmpro service.

  2021(4), pp. 22-24.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23063

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Busin, Adrian; Derman, Melih,

  2020.

  Simulation & optimization needs high performance.

  Transfer.

  2020(2), pp. 5.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21455

• Brunschwiler, Marco; Hollenstein, Lukas; Müller, Julia,

  2020.

  Automatisierte Modellierung der mikrobiologischen Sicherheit von Rezepturen.

  Lebensmittel-Industrie: Fachmagazin für das Management der Nahrungsmittel- und Getränkeindustrie.

  2020(5/6), pp. 18-19.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20194

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Rinkel, Andreas,

  2020.

  Komplexe Dynamik mit Data Science und Simulation beherrschen.

  Logistics Innovation.

  2020(2), pp. 42-44.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21453

• Vorburger, Robert; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2019.

  Virtuell Schäumen : Simulieren und Visualisieren.

  Transfer.

  2019(2), pp. 6.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18853

• Starostina, Tatiana; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2019.

  Logistik mit Simulation sicher planen und optimieren.

  Lebensmittel-Industrie: Fachmagazin für das Management der Nahrungsmittel- und Getränkeindustrie.

  2019(11/12), pp. 14-15.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20245

• Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2018.

  Komplexität in Industrie 4.0 beherrschen mit Simulation.

  Transfer.

  2018(1), pp. 9.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1445

• Schmelzer, Helene; Hollenstein, Lukas; Bütikofer, Stephan; Steiner, Albert; Wüst, Raimond Matthias; Zuberbühler, Ivo,

  2017.

  Kooperationsplattform für die urbane Güterlogistik : Schlussbericht.

• Schmelzer, Helene; Bütikofer, Stephan; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2016.

  Kooperieren? Ja! Aber wie? : Chancen und Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung einer Kooperationsplattform für urbane Güterlogistik in der Stadt Zürich.

  Logistics Innovation.

  2016(1), pp. 16-19.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3864

• Hollenstein, Lukas; Derman, Melih; Lötscher, Adrian,

  2016.

  Simulationsgestützte Optimierung der Produktionsreihenfolge.

  Transfer.

  2016(2), pp. 6.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2050

• Lötscher, Adrian; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2015.

  Komplexe Anlagen einfach simuliert : Past, Present, Future.

  Transfer.

  2015(3), pp. 4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2052

• Gerber, Nicole; Hollenstein, Lukas; Krähenbühl, Andrea,

  2021.

  Was wäre wenn?! Unsichtbares sichtbar machen mit Simulationen im Verpflegungsprozess.

  In:

  FM Perspektiven: FM Innovationen in HC digital, Wädenswil, 26. November 2021.

• Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2016.

  Mit Advanced Dynamic Planning Energiebedarf, Betriebskosten und Investitionsrisiken reduzieren : am Beispiel von Lackieranlagen.

  In:

  16. Thurgauer Technologietag, Kreuzlingen, 18. März 2016.

  Available from: http://www.technologieforum.ch/documents/technologietag/hollensteinl_thurtechtag_2016-03-18.pdf

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

15) Lukas Hollenstein, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Federico R. Urban, "Cosmological Ohm's law and dynamics of non-minimal electromagnetism", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1301 (2013) 013 [arXiv:1208.6547 [astro-ph.CO]].

14) Euclid Theory Working Group Collaboration (Luca Amendola et al.), "Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite", Living Rev. Relativity 16 (2013) 6 [arXiv:1206.1225 [astro-ph.CO]].

13) Rajeev Kumar Jain, Ruth Durrer, Lukas Hollenstein, "Generation of helical magnetic fields from inflation", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 484 (2014) 012062 [arXiv:1204.2409 [astro-ph.CO]].

12) Guillermo Ballesteros, Lukas Hollenstein, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Martin Kunz, "Nonlinear cosmological consistency relations and effective matter stresses", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1205 (2012) 038 [arXiv:1112.4837 [astro-ph.CO]].

11) Lukas Hollenstein, Maud Jaccard, Michele Maggiore, Ermis Mitsou, "Zero-point quantum fluctuations in cosmology", Physical Review D85 (2012) 124031 [arXiv:1111.5575 [astro-ph.CO]].

10) Christian T. Byrnes, Lukas Hollenstein, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Federico R. Urban, "Resonant magnetic fields from inflation", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1203 (2012) 009 [arXiv:1111.2030 [astro-ph.CO]].

9) Michele Maggiore, Lukas Hollenstein, Maud Jaccard, Ermis Mitsou, "Early dark energy from zero-point quantum fluctuations", Physics Letters B704 (2011) 102 [arXiv:1104.3797 [astro-ph.CO]].

8) Ruth Durrer, Lukas Hollenstein, Rajeev Kumar Jain, "Can slow roll inflation induce relevant helical magnetic fields?", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1103 (2011) 037 [arXiv:1005.5322 [astro-ph.CO]].

7) Christian G. Boehmer, Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Sanjeev S. Seahra., "Stability of the Einstein static universe in modified theories of gravity", Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by T. Damour, R. T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore (2010) [arXiv:1001.1266 [gr-qc]].

6) Yong-Seon Song, Lukas Hollenstein, Gabriela Caldera-Cabral, Kazuya Koyama, "Theoretical Priors On Modified Growth Parametrisations", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1004 (2010) 018 [arXiv:1001.0969 [astro-ph.CO]].

5) Lukas Hollenstein, Domenico Sapone, Robert Crittenden, Bjoern Malte Schaefer, "Constraints on early dark energy from CMB lensing and weak lensing tomography", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 0904 (2009) 012 [arXiv:0902.1494 [astro-ph.CO]].

4) Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S.N. Lobo, "Exact solutions of f(R) gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics", Physical Review D78 (2008) 124007 [arXiv:0807.2325 [gr-qc]].

3) Lukas Hollenstein, Chiara Caprini, Robert Crittenden, Roy Maartens, "Challenges for creating magnetic fields by cosmic defects", Physical Review D77 (2008) 063517 [arXiv:0712.1667 [astro-ph]].

2) Christian G. Boehmer, Lukas Hollenstein, Francisco S.N. Lobo, "Stability of the Einstein static universe in f(R) gravity", Physical Review D76 (2007) 084005 [arXiv:0706.1663 [gr-qc]].

1) Steen H. Hansen, Daniel Egli, Lukas Hollenstein, Christoph Salzmann, "Dark matter distribution function from non-extensive statistical mechanics", New Astronomy 10 (2005) 379 [arXiv:astro-ph/0407111].

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