The Sensors and Measuring Systems group is very happy to welcome Emma Terhune from Northeastern University for a global co-op!

Welcome and we wish you a lots of success!

Congratulation to Raphael Hagen (fourth person from the left) who was presenting a talk at the Precision Photonic Systems '23 conference in Buchs last October. The proceeding can be found here.

We are thrilled to announce that the ZHAW School of Engineering has been honored with the Outstanding Co-op Employer Award for 2023 by Northeastern University College of Engineering. It brings us immense joy to consistently welcome Huskies for their co-op experiences in our laboratory.

The dedication and skills demonstrated by these students make them invaluable assets to our Sensors and Measuring Systems group. We deeply appreciate their contributions and look forward to fostering further collaborations with Northeastern University in the future. This recognition is a testament to the strong partnership between our institutions and the success of our shared commitment to experiential education.

Congratulation to Christian Grossmann proudly sharing his research on the analysis of the power transfer of Ventricular Assist Device at the annual SSBE conference in Basel!

Entrepreneurial university innovators, please? Search no further! This month, the Swiss Biodesign Summer School Class 2023, jury and guests listened to 5 interdisciplinary Master Teams that took a 2.5-week deep-dive into operating rooms at Kantonsspital Winterthur and patient lives at Diabetes Center Berne to work on novel product & seed pitches and… they delivered innovator spirit at its finest! Sound market, IP, regulatory and reimbursement analyses combined with story-telling, mock-ups and 'no blush-just flush' product demos on:

• Opera (Ian Caetano Rodrigues Häusler, Christian Grossmann Aybar, Paolo Rüegg, Rahel Popp): Enabling laparoscopic surgery without the need for a second surgeon for camera-assistance
• EasyPouch: Offering stoma patients a comfortable way to deal with the inconveniences of stoma bags (Yan Scholl, Tobias Schubnell, Lina Benarafa, Omar Lone)
• DiaBestie (Adele Dörner, Simon Rammerstorfer, Filiz Tepe, Muriel Zumbihl): Relieving people with Diabetes Type I from related mental distress
• T1Mind (Anthony Anello, Benjamin Albiez, Tisha Kalongi, Viktoriia Simonenko): Reducing anxiety of people with Diabetes Type I
• TypeTogether (Amirmahdi Tavakoli, Florencia Kühne, Jasmin Bachmann, Julian Schneider): Finding peer support for people with Diabetes

And the winner of the Swiss Healthcare Startups Award went to… Team ‘EasyPouch’ for a compelling concept & rock-star pitch! Diana Hardie and Angelina R., thank you for sponsoring the Team’s participation at the SHS Digital Health Lab Day on 27 September worth CHF 1’600! 

Due to a high-profile Jury, this course generated real-life pitching experience: Thanks to you, Diana CEO SHS, Prof. Lilian Witthauer, Blaise K. Jacholkowski, MBA, the teams internalized the difference between TAM vs. Target Market, what investors consider ‘value' for equity and the key tech challenges in robotics, biomaterials and AI.

Impressions, sometimes for a life-time, were generated through two unique clinical immersions: Thank you Prof. Michel Adamina, Dr. Georgios Peros, Dr. Maren Schinz and Sunjoy Mathieu for this memorable experience!

That’s it! Class of 2023 – Live long, innovate and prosper!

We are really happy that Mrs. Lina Benarafa has chosen the SMS lab for an internship. Lina is studying Biomedical Engineering at Polytech Marseille Graduate School of Engineering and Science.

Welcome Lina and we hope you will enjoy your time here!

What an evening! It was really cool to race against each other on real F1 cars (virtually :-)). Congratulations to Raphael for winning the cup!

The Sensors and Measuring Systems group is extremly happy to welcome a new Husky in his team!

Welcome to Gwyneth McNamara who will perform a global co-op in our lab.

A big thank you to Northeastern University and the co-op team for making this happen.

We are looking forward to exciting research.

Congratulation to graduate students Michael Zoller und Joel Hirsbrunner who recieved the Siemens Excellence Award for their Bachelor Thesis entitled "Development of a Point of Care Device - Electronic and Software Implementation of a Volume Sensor".

It was a great pleasure to have you in the lab. Good luck for your future career.

Link to ZHAW news.

BOUMMMMMMMM! Congratulation to Davide Paparo and Ian Häusler who made it and recieved the Gebert-Rüf First Venture Funding! What a achievment.

Link to the ZHAW news.

We are really happy that Mrs. Laureline Thiriot has chosen the SMS lab for an internship. Laureline is studying Biomedical Engineering at Polytech Marseille Graduate School of Engineering and Science.

Welcome Laureline!

The SMS group is delighted to start a collaboration with the startup company Versantis AG.
We are looking forward to this exciting project! 

Link to the news on Versantis webpage and ZHAW news.

Thanks again to Prof. Matoori who gave a very exciting talk entitled "Liposomal delivery systems for diagnostics: the need for portable fluorometers" (and filled up our lab reserve in maple syrup!). 

It was a great opportunity to learn about the topic and brainstorm about future collaborations.

For ZHAW people, the talk has been recorded and can be access here.

I was delighted to learn that ZHAW School of Engineering and my Alma Mater Polytech Marseille (part of Aix-Marseille University) are now official partners! I am looking forward to collaborations and students exchange. A big thank to those at ZHAW SoE and Polytech Marseille who made it possible.

NanoLockin moved into its new office at the Colab Fribourg. This will support the company growth and will allow the best start in 2022.

NanoLockin develops instruments based on active thermography for the reliable and reproducible analysis of nanoparticle systems. Based on the recorded heat signature, dispersed carbon and metallic particles can be quantified or the thickness of thin layers can be analysed.Furthermore, the distribution of the particles in the films can be analysed or the reproducibility of the particle synthesis can be checked.

Check our website for more info!

The company was founded in 2018 as spin-off from the ZHAW and the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg.

Our collaboration with the ETH Zurich (group of Prof. Dr. med. Michael Detmar) and the Zurich University Hospital (Prof. Dr. med. Nicole Lindenblatt) made it to SNSF News!

It was a great pleasure to participate to this exciting project and we are really happy we could bring our engineering expertise and build the device.

We are really happy to welcome Madeleine DeBrosse at the Sensors and Measuring Systems Group. Maddy is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati at the Novel Devices Lab lead by Dr. Heikenfeld. She will be with us for several weeks working in the field of wearable sweat sensors. We are already looking forward interesting results.

Put the lab on fire Maddy! ("metaphor")

The Sensors and Measuring Systems group welcomes our new PA students for the fall semester 2021. Altogether, we have the pleasure to host this semester 8 students from ST and ET.

We are very happy that you chose our lab and we are looking forward to successful projects.

Congratulation to the first cohort of our Master students who successfully completed the Swiss Biodesign Summer School!

Are you interested joining in 2022? Application opening soon. More info here.

We could successfully pick up a Calorsito device in Fribourg produced by the startup company NanoLockin. We got our device from the CEO himself! NanoLockin is a startup developing and commercializing hightech instruments for the detection and characterization of nanoparticles in complex environements. The company is a spin-off from the Adolphe Merkle Institute and ZHAW School of Engineering.

The manuscript entitled "Modeling Stratum Corneum Swelling for the Optimization of Electrode-Based Skin Hydration Sensors" has been accepted for publication in Sensors (MDPI). The publication can be accessed here.

Congrats Claudio!