Dr. Vanessa Christina Klaas

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate, R&D Unit

www.zhaw.ch/de/forschung

Expertise and research interests

Research data management, web technologies, REDCap, openBIS

Hobbies: Functional Training, Neuroathletic training, z-Health

Educational background

2015: Dr. Sc. ETH Zürich
2007: Diploma (Master) Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Professional milestones

2020 - today: Research Assistant, Research & Development Unit, President's Office, ZHAW
2020 - today: Coach
2018 - 2020: Data Scientist, Product Engineering, Signifikant Solutions AG
2015 - 2018: Research Assistant, Doctoral Student, Institute for Electronics, ETH Zürich
2012 - 2015: System Engineer, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, Biotronik SE & Co KG, Berlin, Germany
2007 - 2012: Software and System Engineer, Safety-critical Systems Automotive, Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH, Munich/Berlin, Germany

Projects

• GeoCloud – Simulation Software for Cloud-based Digital Microstructure Design of New Fuel Cell Materials / Team member / Project ongoing
• Interactive Data Visualization Made Easy / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Calatroni, Alberto; Pavic, Matea; Guckenberger, Matthias; Theile, Gudrun; Tröster, Gerhard,

  2020.

  Monitoring patients in ambulatory palliative care : a design for an observational study.

  EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications.

  2021(17), pp. e3.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.31-1-2019.163306

• Pavic, Matea; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Theile, Gudrun; Kraft, Johannes; Tröster, Gerhard; Blum, David; Guckenberger, Matthias,

  2019.

  Mobile health technologies for continuous monitoring of cancer patients in palliative care aiming to predict health status deterioration : a feasibility study.

  Journal of Palliative Medicine.

  23(5), pp. 678-685.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0342

• Pavic, Matea; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Theile, Gudrun; Kraft, Johannes; Tröster, Gerhard; Guckenberger, Matthias,

  2019.

  Feasibility and usability aspects of continuous remote monitoring of health status in palliative cancer patients using wearables.

  Oncology.

  98(6), pp. 386-395.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1159/000501433

• Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Tröster, Gerhard; Walt, Heinrich; Jenewein, Josef,

  2018.

  Remotely monitoring cancer-related fatigue using the smart-phone : results of an observational study.

  Information.

  9(11), pp. 271.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/info9110271

• Seiler, Annina; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Tröster, Gerhard; Fagundes, Christopher P.,

  2017.

  eHealth and mHealth interventions in the treatment of fatigued cancer survivors : a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  Psycho-Oncology.

  26(9), pp. 1239-1253.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4489

• Klaas, Vanessa Christina,

  2018.

  Monitoring outpatients in palliative care through wearable devices.

  Zürich:

  ETH Zürich.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000299669

• Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Opitz, Franziska; Jaekel, Martin,

  2022.

  It‘s not a bug – it’s a beetle! : integrating REDCap as a no-coding-needed-database in automated R workflows to ensure data integrity and increase reproducibility [poster].

  In:

  REDCapCon, Boston, USA, 19-24 September 2022.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25824

• Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Calatroni, Alberto; Hardegger, Michael; Guckenberger, Matthias; Theile, Gudrun; Tröster, Gerhard,

  2017.

  Monitoring patients in ambulatory palliative care : a design for an observational study [paper].

  In:

  Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare.

  International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), Milano, Italy, 14-16 November 2016.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 207-214.

  Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering ; 192.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_28

• Kaiser, Bernhard; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Schulz, Stefan; Herbst, Christian; Lascych, Peter,

  2010.

  Integrating system modelling with safety activities [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security.

  SAFECOMP 2010 : 29th International Conference, Vienna, 14-17 September 2010.

  Springer.

  pp. 452-465.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6351.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15651-9_33

• Hauf, Nicolai; Fürholz, Andreas; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Morger, Jennifer; Šimukovič, Elena; Jaekel, Martin,

  2021.

  Data reuse in the social sciences and humanities : project report of the SWITCH Innovation Lab “Repositories & Data Quality”.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2404

• Pavic, Matea; Guckenberger, Matthias; Tröster, Gerhard; Klaas, Vanessa Christina,

  2018.

  Mobile health technology in severely ill patients [poster].

  In:

  ESTRO 37 : Conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, 20-24 April 2018.

• Theile, Gudrun; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Tröster, Gerhard; Guckenberger, Matthias,

  2017.

  mHealth technologies for palliative care patients at the interface of in-patient to outpatient care : protocol of feasibility study aiming to early predict peterioration of patient’s health status.

  JMIR Research Protocols.

  6(8), pp. e142.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.7676

• Seiler, Annina Julia; Klaas, Vanessa; Tröster, Gerhard; Murdock, Kyle W.; Chirinos, Diana A.; Garcini, Luz M.; Fagundes, Christopher P.,

  2017.

  Evaluating heart-hate variability, salivary cortisol and physical activity as predictors of cancer-related fatigue recovery in breast-cancer survivors over a 12 week period by use of a smartphone application.

  In:

  Proceedings of the AACR Annual Meeting 2017.

  American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, 1-5 April 2017.

  American Association for Cancer Research.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-3264

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