Publications

Researchers from 14 institutes and centres are working with industry and institutional partners to develop innovative, scientifically based solutions. This research work is documented in a number of scientific publications.

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C. Vieira, Lourenço; A. Villarroel, Pedro; Schärer, Roman P.; Kecsenovity, Egon; Schumacher, Jürgen O.,

2026.

Studying local inhomogeneities in zero-gap CO2 electrolysis via validated 2D multiphysics simulation[poster].

In:

22nd Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (ModVal), Lausanne, Switzerland, 10-11 March 2026.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36171
Schärer, Roman P.; Schumacher, Jürgen O.,

2026.

Unified microkinetic modelling of coupled oxygen reduction and degradation reactions in PEMFC cathode catalyst layers[poster].

In:

22nd Symposium on Modeling and Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (ModVal), Lausanne, Switzerland, 10-11 March 2026.
Nobar, Mahdi; Keller, Jürg; Forino, Alessandro; Lygeros, John; Rupenyan, Alisa,

2026.

Guided multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization for data-driven controller tuning with digital twins.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

11(5), pp. 5294-5301.
Bessa, Ricardo J.; Leyli-Abadi, Milad; Yagoubi, Mouadh; Boos, Daniel; Borst, Clark; Castagna, Alberto; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Dias, Duarte; Egli, Adrian; Eisenegger, Andrina; Ellerbroek, Joost; Fedorova, Anna; Felix, Cristina; Fuxjäger, Anton; Geraldes, Joaquim; Hamouche, Samira; Hassouna, Mohamed; Kop, Sjoerd; Lemetayer, Bruno; Leto, Giulia; Liessner, Roman; Lundberg, Jonas; Marot, Antoine; Meddeb, Maroua; Meyer, Manuel; Sales, Hélio; Schiaffonati, Viola; Schneider, Manuel; Sturm, Irene; Usher, Julia; Van Hoof, Herke; Viebahn, Jan; Wäfler, Toni; Zanotti, Giacomo,

2026.

Toward a holistic framework for human-AI collaboration in safety-critical systems.

In:

Curry, Edward; Piatkiewicz, Philip; Heintz, Fredrik; Vornhagen, Heike; Belbachir, Ahmed Nabil; Girardi, Emanuela; Schoenauer, Marc; Röning, Juha, eds.,

Artificial intelligence, data and robotics : foundations, transformations and future directions.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 343-402.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35968
Mauriot, Emeline; Vucko, Flavien; Marmet, Philip; Holzer, Lorenz; Sainis, Salil; Dumouchel, Maxime; Prestat, Michel,

2026.

Initiation stage of Ti6Al4V corrosion in H2O2-containing phosphate buffer saline.

Materials Letters.

412(140379).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36281
González Pincheira, Luis; Chavez, Hector; Obushevs, Artjoms; Quiroz, Juan; Pérez, Roberto,

2026.

A web-based platform for benchmarking parameter identification algorithms in reduced-order frequency models.

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.

176(111720).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36282
Nasehi, Mahsa; Hassanpour, Ehsan; Bonmarin, Mathias; Witthauer, Lilian,

2026.

Liquid crystal-based interferometric detection of optical activity for glucose sensing.

In:

Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2026.

SPIE BiOS, San Francisco, USA, 17-23 January 2026.

SPIE.

pp. PC138540J.
Sager, Pascal J.; Deriu, Jan M.; Grewe, Benjamin F.; Stadelmann, Thilo; von der Malsburg, Christoph,

2026.

The cooperative network architecture : learning structured networks as representation of sensory patterns.

Neural Computation.

38(4), pp. 538-572.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35942
Cheng, Chun-Wun; Cheng, Yanqi; Jing, Peiyuan; Yang, Guang; Montoya-Zegarra, Javier A.; Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane; Aviles-Rivero, Angelica I.,

2026.

ProSMA-UNet : decoder conditioning for proximal-sparse skip feature selection.

arXiv.
Jing, Peiyuan; Cheng, Chun-Wun; Yang, Liutao; Zhang, Zhenxuan; Lima, Thiago V.; Strobel, Klaus; Leimgruber, Antoine; Aviles-Rivero, Angelica; Yang, Guang; Montoya-Zegarra, Javier A.,

2026.

MAP-Diff : multi-anchor guided diffusion for progressive 3D whole-body low-dose PET denoising.

arXiv.
Heussen, Kai; Kazmi, Jawad; Mehran, Narges; Obushevs, Artjoms; O’Donnell, Terence; Strasser, Thomas I.,

2026.

Towards reproducible test annotation for cyber-physical energy systems using ontology-driven dataspaces[paper].

In:

2026 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES).

Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES), Karlsruhe, Germany, 23-25 March 2026.

IEEE.
Khawaja, Hassan Abbas; Holzer, Lorenz; Zaubitzer, Christian; Boiger, Gernot Kurt,

2026.

Ice adhesion on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces : visualization with Cryo-FIB-SEM.

Results in Engineering.

29(109793).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35896
Marmet, Philip; Safa, Yasser; Prestat, Michel; Vucko, Flavien; Logé, Roland; Holzer, Lorenz,

2026.

In situ quantification of β-phase dissolution in Ti-6Al-4V under harsh oxidative conditions.

Corrosion Science.

263(113730).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36020
Jokinen, Jarno; Orell, Olli; Hakala, Pauli; Pournoori, Nazanin; Wallin, Markus; Peikert, Gregor; Kanerva, Mikko,

2026.

Adherend effect on the mode I fracture energy analysis.

The Journal of Adhesion.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35943
Edebeli, Jacinta; Durdina, Lukas; Brem, Benjamin T.; Rindlisbacher, Theo,

2026.

Aviation particulate matter emissions research in Switzerland : history and milestones to date.

Chimia.

80(1-2), pp. 36-40.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35882
Felux, Michael; Osechas, Okuary; Fischer, Valentin; Fischer, Sophie; Nietlispach, Michael,

2026.

Evolving threats of GNSS interference in aviation : jamming, spoofing and TCAS anomalies[paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2026 International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation.

International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (ION ITM), Anaheim, CA, USA, 26 - 29 January 2026.

Manassas, VA:

Institute of Navigation.

pp. 854-863.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36767
Nietlispach, Michael; Felux, Michael; McGraw, Gary A.; Caamano, Maria,

2026.

Ground station pseudorange pre-smoothing and error model development for DFMC GBAS[paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2026 International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation.

International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (ION ITM), Anaheim, CA, USA, 26 - 29 January 2026.

Manassas, VA:

Institute of Navigation.

pp. 864-879.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36765
Fischer, Valentin; Fischer, Sophie; Felux, Michael,

2026.

Spoofer bearing estimation using weighted C/N0 measurements of a directional antenna[paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2026 International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation.

International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (ION ITM), Anaheim, CA, USA, 26 - 29 January 2026.

Manassas, VA:

Institute of Navigation.

pp. 482-492.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36766
Zapata, Juliana; Nguyen, Duy Ngoc; Haase, Matthias; Sasso, Leo,

2026.

Energy building analysis considering different ownership types.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36145
Wulf, Jochen; Meierhofer, Jürg; Pascher, Nikola,

2026.

Guided operations and maintenance with retrieval-augmented generation : system design and evaluation at a machine manufacturer[paper].

In:

13th CIRP Global Web Conference, online, 16-17 October 2025.

Elsevier.

pp. 349-354.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35720