What do we do? We push innovations in biosystems, such as the human body and plant-based foods

How do we work? We do research & development to innovate products and services. We find problems, invent new solutions, and deploy them by working in interdisciplinary teams. Check out our innovations.

Which impact we want to have on society? 

• Individualizing nutrition and drug delivery systems to the human body by developing new health interventions
• Reducing food loss and increasing plant-based foods' shelf life through postharvest technology
• Making postharvest supply chains resilient through better decision-making and logistics
• Helping to solve marine plastic pollution with new ghost-net cleanup technology
• Generating airflow with low energy consumption using ionic wind technology

Which methods do we use/ How do we do this?

• Pioneering physics-based simulations and data-driven modeling of transport processes in plant-based food systems and the human body at multiple scales
• Multi-parameter sensing, data fusion, data analytics, and data upcycling
• Creating digital twins that live together with their real-world counterparts to bridge the virtual to the real world
• Combining these twins with additional hardware to deploy cyber-physical systems
• Disseminating these digital tools to scientists and society via open-access mobile applications and tools

What are our educational activities? We teach a Master course @ ETH Zurich on Simulations and Sensors in Agri-Food Supply Chains (5 ECTS credits).