Jonas Hofmann

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research assistant IMES

Focus

Soft tissue biomechanics

Experience

• R&D Engineer Smart materials
  Angst+Pfister
  08 / 2021 - 07 / 2022
• PiBS Internship
  Angst+Pfister
  08 / 2017 - 07 / 2021

Education and Continuing education

Education

BSc / Mechanical Engineering
ZHAW SoE
09 / 2017 - 07 / 2021

Projects

• A histology-informed numerical structural and fluid mechanical investigation of pericardial patches for treatment of pulmonary artery stenosis / Team member / ongoing
• Towards mechanically biocompatible implant materials for pelvic floor repair / Team member / ongoing
• Measurement, statistical evaluation, and calibration of mechanical model parameters of human soft tissues / Team member / completed
• The mechanobiology of fibroblasts in soft nanofibrous materials – novel test protocols for in-situ mechanical testing / Team member / completed

Publications

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Röhrnbauer, B., Zimmerli, J., & Hofmann, J. (2025, September 21). Numerical validation of an in-situ test method to quantify the microscale kinematics of nanofibrous membranes based on continuum mechanics. 11th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Braunschweig, Germany, 21-24 September 2025.
• Nusser, M., Carroll, D., Hofmann, J., Delaloye, J., & Della Casa, A. (2025, July 6). A novel robot based testing methodology to deepen clinical investigations of the knee joint. 30th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, Zurich, Switzerland, 6-9 July 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33661
• Zimmerli, J., Hofmann, J., & Röhrnbauer, B. (2024). A continuum mechanics based quantification of microscale kinematics of nanofibrous membranes [Conference poster]. Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering SSBE Abstract Book, 42. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32725
• Hofmann, J., Fialová, C., Adlhart, C., Strassmann, M., Rimann, M., & Röhrnbauer, B. (2024, June 30). Micro and macromechanics of electrospun membranes under uniaxial and biaxial loading conditions. 29th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 June - 3 July 2024.
• Cauquil, E., Kiener, L., Hofmann, J., Spano, F., & Röhrnbauer, B. (2023, September). A combined experimental and numerical method for tailoring the multi-scale mechanical properties of soft solid liquid composites. 33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), Davos, Switzerland, 4-8 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30272

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Carroll, D., Hofmann, J., Delaloye, J.-R., & Nusser, M. (2024). Developing a new robot based testing methodology to deepen clinical investigations surrounding the knee joint [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering SSBE Abstract Book, 10. www.zhaw.ch/storage/engineering/institute-zentren/imes/SSBE/Abstract_Book_SSBE_2024.pdf
• Hofmann, J., Fialová, C., Adlhart, C., Strassmann, M., Rimann, M., & Röhrnbauer, B. (2024, June 30). Large-porous or nano-fibrous? – a mechanical perspective on implant materials for the pelvic floor. 29th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 June - 3 July 2024.

Other publications

Fine liquid-core polymer fibers for microhydraulic applications: A versatile process design

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