Prof. Dr. Barbara Röhrnbauer

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Professor for Tissue Biomechanics
• Senior lecturer IMES in Mechanical Engineering
• Deputy Programme Director, BSc Mechanical Engineering

Focus

Soft tissue biomechanics

Teaching

• Mechanical Engineering: Mechanics - Kinematics and Kinetics
• Mechanical Engineering: Mechanics - Strength of materials
• Mechanical Engineering: Mechanics - Finite Element Method
• Focus: Biomechanical Engineering

Experience

• Senior Lecturer
  ZHAW School of Engineering, IMES Institute of Mechanical Systems
  09 / 2020 - today
• Senior Development Engineer, Technical Project Manager
  Nobel Biocare Services AG
  09 / 2016 - 06 / 2020
• Product Engineer
  Wyss Translational Center Zurich, Project: Zurich Heart
  08 / 2015 - 07 / 2016
• Development Engineer
  Sulzer Management AG, Pumps Equipment
  06 / 2013 - 07 / 2015
• Research assistant, PhD candidate
  ETH Zurich, Center of Mechanics, Prof. Edoardo Mazza
  08 / 2008 - 04 / 2013

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Mechanical Engineering
  ETH Zurich, Center of Mechanics, Prof. Edoardo Mazza
  08 / 2008 - 12 / 2012
• Diploma, Master / Mechanical Engineering
  Technical University of Munich, TU Munich
  10 / 2001 - 09 / 2006

Continuing Education

CAS in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW School of Management and Law
07 / 2021

Projects

• Towards mechanically biocompatible implant materials for pelvic floor repair / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Towards tailored mechanical properties of artificial tissue models / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Röhrnbauer, Barbara,

  2023.

  Mechanical properties of pelvic implants : interaction between implants and tissue

  .

  In:

  Brieu, Mathias; Cosson, Michel; Nielsen, Poul, eds.,

  Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs.

  Academic Press.

  pp. 247-272.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823403-7.00021-X

• Cauquil, Eléonore; Kiener, Luca; Hofmann, Jonas; Spano, Fabrizio; Röhrnbauer, Barbara,

  2023.

  A combined experimental and numerical method for tailoring the multi-scale mechanical properties of soft solid liquid composites [poster].

  In:

  33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), Davos, Switzerland, 4-8 September 2023.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30272

• Röhrnbauer, Barbara,

  2024.

  Dank Grundlagenforschung zum idealen Netz?.

  In:

  10. Internationaler Kongress Gynäkologie Update, Universitätsspital Zürich, Schweiz, 25.-27. Januar 2024.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• B. Röhrnbauer, C. Betschart, D. Perucchini, M. Bajka, D. Fink, C. Maake, E. Mazza, and D.A. Scheiner. Measuring tissue displacement of the anterior vaginal wall using the novel aspiration technique in vivo. Scientific Reports, 7(1):1–7, 2017. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16083-0
• G. Ochsner, M.J. Wilhelm, R. Amacher, A. Petrou, N. Cesarovic, S. Staufert, B. Röhrnbauer, F. Maisano, C. Hierold, M. Meboldt, and M. Schmid Daners. In Vivo Evaluation of Physiologic Control Algorithms for Left Ventricular Assist Devices Based on Left Ventricular Volume or Pressure. ASAIO Journal, 63(5):568–577, 2017. doi:10.1097/MAT.0000000000000533
• M.M. Maurer, B. Röhrnbauer, A. Feola, J. Deprest, and E. Mazza. Prosthetic meshes for repair of hernia and pelvic organ prolapse: Comparison of biomechanical properties. Materials, 8(5):2794–2808, 2015. doi:10.3390/ma8052794
• M. M. Maurer, B. Röhrnbauer, A. Feola, J. Deprest, and E. Mazza. Mechanical biocompatibility of prosthetic meshes: A comprehensive protocol for mechanical characterization. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 40:42–58, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.08.005
• B. Röhrnbauer and E. Mazza. Uniaxial and biaxial mechanical characterization of a prosthetic mesh at different length scales. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 29:7–19, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.07.021
• B. Röhrnbauer, G. Kress, and E. Mazza. A physically based structural model for a textile prosthetic mesh. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 51(3-4):633–646, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2013.10.030
• B. Röhrnbauer, Y. Ozog, J. Egger, E. Werbrouck, J. Deprest, and E. Mazza. Combined biaxial and uniaxial mechanical characterization of prosthetic meshes in a rabbit model. Journal of Biomechanics, 46(10):1626–1632, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.04.015
• B. Röhrnbauer and E. Mazza. A non-biological model system to simulate the in vivo mechanical behavior of prosthetic meshes. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 20:305–315, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.01.029
• Röhrnbauer, B. Mechanical characterization and modeling of prosthetic meshes. PhD thesis, 2013. doi: 10.3929/ethz-a-009781983
• [Conference proceeding] B. Röhrnbauer, M. Sciancalepore, M. Singer, T. Johne, and P. Dupont. An efficient and comprehensive methodology to evaluate the misalignment of pump shafts using FEM. In Pump summit, Düsseldorf, 2014
• [Conference proceeding] B. Röhrnbauer, G. Kress, and E. Mazza. Mechanical biocompatibility of medical mesh implants. In Proceedings of the 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC), Graz, 2012
• [Conference proceeding] B. Röhrnbauer, G. Kress, and E. Mazza. Mechanical modeling of medical mesh implants at the mesoscale. In Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of the 83rd Annual Meeting (GAMM), Darmstadt, 2012
• [Conference proceeding] B. Röhrnbauer, G. Kress, and E. Mazza. Multiscale characterization and modeling of medical mesh implants. In Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS), Barcelona, 2011
• [Conference proceeding] B. Röhrnbauer, M. Bajka, C. Betschart, D. Perucchini, D. Fink, E. Mazza, and D.A. Scheiner. Measurement of the mechanical response of the vaginal wall,. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, 2009

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