Start of Fellowships 2025
For the seventh time, the "ZHAW digital" initiative is supporting researchers working on projects related to digital transformation. This year, the scholarship is awarded to five junior and five senior fellows with doctoral students. The fellows come from four different ZHAW departments.
ZHAW digital has been promoting innovation, research, and collaboration in the digital field since 2019. The initiative focuses on three pillars: education promotion, research promotion, and the digital transformation of the ZHAW. In the field of research promotion, it finances projects through the “Digital Futures Fund for Research”, supports individuals through fellowships, makes research visible and enables networking.
The 2025 fellows are working on topics such as the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in disease diagnosis, child protection, criminal and corporate law, or in autonomous systems. There are also projects on urban planning, space sensors, the development of the next generation of AI, and more. The ten fellows come from the departments School of Engineering (SoE), the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management (LSFM), the School of Management and Law (SML), and Social Work.
Christoph Heitz (SoE) is combining legal concepts with technical implementation to ensure that AI applications comply with non-discrimination laws.
Dragan Stoll (Social Work) is exploring the use of AI and machine learning for evidence-based and unbiased decision-making in child protection.
Eduardas Lazebnyj (SML) is introducing model adaptation parameters into network models and applying existing and new methods to three law enforcement cases.
Firouzeh Ebadi Garjan (SoE) is devising an intelligent and energy-efficient environmental sensor for poorly lit rooms.
Jasmina Bogojeska (SoE) is developing explainable multimodal AI methods to enhance the early diagnosis of chronic diseases.
Maria Anisimova (LSFM) is working on the inference of Indel (DNA sequence variations through insertion or deletion) biomarkers in connection with immunosuppression and drug resistance.
Matteo Spada (SoE) is developing a digital spatio-temporal support tool that integrates geographic data, real-time analysis, and evolving time patterns to enable more informed decision-making in dynamic environments.
Mattia Battaglia (SoE) is creating reliable planning bases for the livable city of the future.
Monika Reif (SoE) is developing methods for robust, trustworthy, and secure AI systems in high-risk applications.
Pascal Sager (SoE) is developing AI agents that learn a world model that predicts the reactions of the environment and combines this with a robot.