Research activities School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
The latest publications and projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management.
Publications
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Babbi, Manuel; Schmit, Françoise,
2023.
Reussschlaufe Hegnau – ein Paradies für Wasserkäfer.
Umwelt Aargau.
(92), pp. 53-56.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27980
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Wrase, Isabelle; Haase, Matthias; Wang-Speiser, Zifei,
2023.
Frontiers in Sustainability.
4(1163394).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2023.1163394
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Altermatt, Florian; Carraro, Luca; Antonetti, Manuel; Albouy, Camille; Zhang, Yan; Lyet, Arnaud; Zhang, Xiaowei; Pellissier, Loïc,
2023.
Environmental DNA.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.430
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Döring, Michael; Tonolla, Diego; Antonetti, Manuel,
2023.
In:
Slovenian Water Days, Rimske Toplice, Slovenia, 24-25 May 2023.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27937
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Gerber, Nicole; Merkle, Thorsten,
2023.
Improving residents’ wellbeing in senior citizen homes with more individualized food services [paper].
In:
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.
CIB W070 Conference on Facility Management and Maintenance 2023, Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 May 2023.
IOP Publishing.
pp. 012016.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012016
Projects
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Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning
We recently released "A Theory of Natural Intelligence", proposing a possible key to the emergence of intelligence in biological learners. Goal of this fellowship is to develop a technical implementation of the concept of self-organizing netfragments within contemporary deep artificial neural nets. ...
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Augmented Realitiy Outdoor Mission "Escape the fossils"
With the Augmented Realitiy (AR) outdoor mission " Escape the Fossils", we want to create awareness and communicate our current research on energy transitions. It will specicially target students from 12 years. For this reason supporting material will be developed. The project partnership between the institute of ...
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Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios
To address climate and regulatory challenges for Swiss Pension and Real Estate funds, this project aims to create transparent, technology- and data-driven methods for evaluating Swiss Real Estate assets in terms of obsolescence, carbon emissions (current and forward-looking), and energy efficiency using large data ...
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ReFoCus – Innovative application of bio-processing for nutritionally enhanced and minimally processed animal-free food products
We target to develop centre-of-the-plate food products through an innovative application of texture- and nutrient-optimized bio-processing, assisted by data-driven process optimization. From sustainability perspective, the product aims for minimal processing and up-cycling of agro-food side streams. ...
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Comparison of roasting
Comparison of roasting with different head/energy sources. This will be conducted first (2023) on three shop roasters and later (2024) on two industrial roasters.