Dr. Lukas Hollenstein

Management role

Head, Simulation & Optimization

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Modelling & Simulation

http://www.zhaw.ch/ias/simopt

Professional development teaching

• CAS in Digital Life Sciences
• Advanced Modelling of Complex Processes
• Collecting, Generating & Structuring Data for Simulations
• Process Simulation Fundamentals
• Process Simulation Specialization & Capstone Project
• Simulating Complex Processes
• The Process Simulation Project
• Validation, Experimentation & Communicating Results from Simulations

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 May 2019: Head Simulation & Optimization, IAS, ZHAW
since September 2013: Senior Lecturer, IAS, 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 (kooptiert), Ansprechpartner für Mitglieder in der Schweiz
• VNL Verein Netzwerk Logistik - Swiss Logistics Faculty
• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate
• Loop Frontiers
• ORCID

• Designing Business Models for the IoT / Project leader / Project ongoing
• A top-down indicator of lean-green alignment in small and medium-sized enterprises / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Predicitve Waste Management for SBB Train Stations / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Bayes network analysis for data-driven decision support in hospital catering / Team member / Project ongoing
• Simulation Personenströme Einganszone JVA Pöschwies / Project leader / Project completed
• Simulation & Optimization needs HPC / Project leader / Project completed
• Complexity 4.0 / Team member / Project completed
• Generic Simulation and Scheduling Tool for Powder Spray Coating Facilities / Project leader / Project completed
• Scheduling & Simulation USM / Project leader / Project completed
• Cooperational platform for urban logictis / Team member / Project completed
• Simulation Flüssig-Produktion & Logistik / Team member / Project completed

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Vorburger, Robert; Hollenstein, Lukas,

  2018.

  Virtuell Schäumen : Simulieren und Visualisieren.

  Transfer.

  2019(2), pp. 6.

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

• 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

• 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

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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