All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Valorization of Swiss Agri-Food Side Streams
Food waste is a topic of concern worldwide as substantial amount of food ends up as waste along the food value chain. This represents not only a resource problem but also an environmental and economic one, on top of being a moral challenge for the modern society. The production of food waste covers all the food life ...
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Active modified surfaces for contained drug release
In this project, a protocol for immobilization of novel anti-fibrotic drug compounds within electrospun meshes of polymer fibres will be established. These meshes will allow for a local and sustained release of the incorporated drug molecules for the treatment of chronic wounds or to prevent implant associated ...
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CHEERS – Using brewery sidestreams to manufacture innovative products
The industrial production of beer often generates large volumes of by-products that are not used optimally. The European project "CHEERS" aims to convert unused by-products and waste of beer production such as bagasse, wastewater, CO2 and CH4 into innovative bio-based products. Currently, bagasse is used for ...
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Feature Learning for Bayesian Inference
The goal of this project is to use interpretable Machine Learning (ML) to find low-dimensional features in high-dimensional noisy data generated by (i) stochastic models or (ii) real systems. In both cases, the problem is to disentangle the effect of high-dimensional disturbances, such as noise or unobserved inputs, ...
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FuelSOME – Multifuel SOFC system with Maritime Energy Vectors
FuelSOME’s vision is to make a substantial contribution to the required drastic reduction of Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from global shipping (climate change mitigation) with a reduction of air pollutants, such as NOx, SOX, and pollution prevention and control, at the same time. The future roadmap of the ...
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Further Psychometric Validation of the Privacy At Work Inventory (PAW) – Dimensionality in Different Office Types
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Housing Conditions, Privacy, and Aggression during Covid-19 lockdown in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic, as a suddenly occurring and global exceptional situation, led to comprehensive restrictions on everyday life and posed a significant challenge to the world's population. Personal living circumstances had to adapt to the new conditions, familiar freedoms of movement were severely limited, ...
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LAMASUS – Land use and Management modelling for Sustainable governance
Within this project, the research group collaborates with researcher from 16 EU countries to develop modeling tools and to study conditions for achieving climate neutrality in the European land use sector by 2035.As part of the European Green Deal, the EU must achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The land use sector ...
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Sensory Processing, Office Features and Burnout Symptoms in an Office Worker Population – A Pilot Study
Modern office concepts focus on open and flexible workspace designs to meet the demands of digital transformation and the increasing need for flexibility. Our study will examine the relationship between sensory processing, burnout symptoms, and satisfaction among office workers whilst being mindful of office ...
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Implementation of Action Plan against Food Waste
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OSR4H – Open Set Recognition for Hematology
Development of a Proof of Concept for visual Open Set Recognition (OSR) algorithms applied to a Hematology task, the classification of white blood cells.
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Small Chiral Molecules: Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Parity Violation
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PURAMMON (Main Project) – Renewable Nitrogen-Mineral Fertiliser from Slurry
Adapted to the Swiss agricultural structure, the mobile ammonia recycling process makes it possible to recover valuable nitrogen from agriculture, to return it well-directed as fertiliser via a recycling model and thus to support important environmental goals.
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Development of the #Bestandsplatine#: A Common Data Environment as Design and Decision Supporting Tool
With this preliminary project we would like to implement the existing Veg-Module into an Eco-Module which shall contain enhanced ecological data such as animal species distribution, habitat and vegetation types. In this way, we would test the potentiality to develop an ‘Ecological’ Common Data Environment as Design ...
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Mushroom cultivation on substrate blocks in agricultural production and gardens
The production of mushrooms on substrate blocks in climate-controlled growrooms is a proven method for decades. Growing mushrooms on logs or straw bales outdoors is really trendy in private horticulture. So far, little attention and little research has been done on a promising hybrid form: production on substrate ...
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National Nutrition Survey for children and adolescents
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An experimental framework to allow evidence-based sustainability policymaking
This research project evaluates the feasibility of using a mathematical decision framework (based on the 2019 Nobel laureates in Economy who developed an experimental approach for improving policy in poverty through field experiments) in sustainability policy, and achieving a software-supported and data-driven ...
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Drone Alarm
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Food Chain Model for sustainable food chains and food waste prevention
The main product of this project includes five modules (toolboxes), which together form the Sustainable Food Chain Model (FCM) and enable the modeling of the environmental effects of entire food value chains. This makes it possible to model scenarios of value chains with their impact on the environment, which is ...
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Sustainable Packaging Architecture
The goal of the project is to develop an interdisciplinary approach (packaging technology and materials, packaging design, environmental psychology and sustainability) to develop sustainable packaging concepts for existing or new products. Thereby different know-how and experiences in material development, food ...
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Workplace Concept and Space Planning RSI
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Point-of-need breath aerosol collector for non-invasive Tuberculosis diagnosis
ZHAW, UZH and Avelo aim to research, develop, and clinically assess a novel breath aerosol sampling device for the non-invasive diagnosis of Tuberculosis.
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C-Atoms for Circular Chemistry (CO2NVERT)
In order to achieve the overarching goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, a paradigm shift toward a cir-cular economy for carbon has to be put in place. The systemic objective of the Flagship project is to provide the society with a viable case study of the CO2 circular economy applied to the chemical industry. The ...
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Extracellular vesicles for targeted delivery of new antimicrobials
Infectious disease caused by bacteria constitutes a major threat to human health. Althoughantibiotics control bacterial infections, their efficacy is mitigated by the rise of antibioticresistance. Further challenging elimination of pathogenic bacteria, some species such asStaphylococcus aureus, responsible for a ...
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Innovative biomaterials technology to develop cultivated meat
Using innovative biomaterials technology to develop cultivated meat, providing a sustainable and healthy alternative to traditional meat through a circular bioeconomy.