Theses
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Bachelor Thesis [110]
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Habilitation Thesis [170]
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Collaborations between startups and established firms: Intellectual property protection and engagement programs
(2022)Collaborations between startups and established firms are a double-edged sword – they hold enormous potential for value creation, but can lead to value misappropriation. In this dissertation, I examine two critical factors which determine the value creation and appropriation in such collaborations: (1) identifying suitable collaborators and (2) misappropriation of startups’ intellectual property (IP). The following three essays, which ...Doctoral Thesis -
Designing a Low-Power Autonomous Embedded System for Aircraft Collision Prevention
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A Novel Stretchable Sensor System to Wirelessly Measure Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Strains
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Practical data-centric optimization of C/C++ applications
(2022)C is a programming language used everywhere and in a big part of scientific codes. With the increase of highly parallel computing machines the code needs to be adapted to be able to use the full power available. In my thesis I will expand a compiler frontend to be able to transform C code into a data centric representation that will intern be able to identify data dependencies automatically and hence produce highly parallel code. ...Bachelor Thesis -
Motor-Integrated Power Factor Corrected Single-to-Three-Phase AC/AC Converter Concepts
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The Molecular Underpinnings of Wild-Type Von Hippel-Lindau Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
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Beyond reproducibility: Knocking on sustainability's door
(2022)The following thesis presents three independent studies which were carried out as part of the author's doctoral studies in the Computational Biology Group at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel. These projects deal with the development of statistical methods for the detection of pathway dysregulations, and the processing and analysis of next-generation sequencing data with a particular focus on the ...Doctoral Thesis -
High repetition rate soft X-ray sources from few-cycle OPCPAs
(2022)Attosecond science studies the fastest dynamics of matter, revealing how physical and chemical processes take place at the most fundamental level. A spectral region of particular interest for the generation of attosecond pulses is in the soft X-rays, between 283 and 543 eV. Indeed, attosecond pulses generated in this so-called water window can be used to study biological samples at the electronic time scale (10^(−15) to 10^(-18) ...Doctoral Thesis -
Development of a microfluidic platform to emulate the human microvasculature
(2022)The human body employs a tube-like system calledblood vessels for transporting molecules such as oxygen or cells. These pipes are lined with endothelial cells that are phenotypically different and thus very heterogenous. Due to its important role in maintaining homeostasis, every organ and tissue is heavily relying on thorough vascularization. Thus, with intravenous drug administration every target within the ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Synthetic biology circuits: temperature and myocardial infarction sensors for precision therapeutics
(2022)Personalized medicine is the science for developing remedies tailored to the individual necessities of each and every patient. The regulatory approval of the first engineered mammalian cell therapies enhanced the anticipation that these are to become the next pillar of medical care for complex and chronic disease. Although such cells are biological entities, they are modified using engineering principles in what is now established as the ...Doctoral Thesis -
Explaining species richness: latitudinal gradient in niche breadth
(2022)Species richness, i.e. the number of species in a given area, increases from the poles towards the tropics. This is one of the oldest and most famous patterns in ecology. A multitude of hypotheses have been generated trying to explain the underlying mechanisms, many of which require a latitudinal gradient in niche breadth. This study investigates if a latitudinal gradient in niche breadth and/or geographic extent is globally present and ...Master Thesis -
Biomedical Signal Analysis of the Brain and Systemic Physiology
(2022)Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive and easy-to-use diagnostic technique that enables real-time tissue oxygenation measurements applied in various contexts and for different purposes. Continuous monitoring with NIRS of brain oxygenation, for example, in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), is essential to prevent lifelong disabilities in newborns. Moreover, NIRS can be applied to observe brain activity associated with ...Doctoral Thesis -
Green state investment banks: Their role in mobilising finance to accelerate the energy transition and the politics behind their establishment and design
(2020)The adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015 signified a shift away from the Kyoto Protocol’s international burden-sharing outlook towards nationally driven mitigation action, and therefore national level policy tools. Significantly this agreement recognizes the crucial role finance must play in addressing climate change, highlighting the importance of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and ...Doctoral Thesis -
CoxNAMs: Interpretable Deep Learning Model For Survival Analysis
(2022)Despite their popularity in other fields, deep learning methods have remained unpopular in survival analysis applications. Although there have been prior attempts and research to bring the multilayer perceptron (MLP) to survival analysis and have demonstrated increased performance compared to the traditional methods, the uninterpretable nature has made the fully connected networks unattractive. In this project, we introduce CoxNAMs, ...Master Thesis