Running projects

Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant in India and Nigeria
Virtual twinning for intelligent, personalized transdermal drug delivery
Electrohydrodynamic air propulsion device
An answer given by physics-based digital twins from flower to fork
Evaporative cooling to preserve fresh produce after harvest

Hybrid digital twins enable understanding of biological variability to optimize food drying
Multiscale mapping of the fruit's lifecycle from flower to fork by physics-based digital twins

Completed projects

Bringing the digital twins of fruit and vegetables to the public
Smart packaging solutions
Convective cooling of heat-sensitive products organised in macro-porous assemblies: a novel conjugate method
Artificial fruit sensor
Strategies for innovations for Swiss masks needed in pandemic situations
Electrohydrodynamics for non-thermal, low-energy dehydration of soft, heat-sensitive materials

Fortifying dehydrated fruits by scalable electrohydrodynamics
Solar drying of soft cellular materials: a multiscale approach
Artificial fruit sensor system for monitoring the thermal behaviour of fruit in the cold chain
PACKCHAIN: Eco-smart ventilated packaging for fresh fruit using virtual cold chainsMultiscale fluid-tunnel facility for the built environment
Multiscale fluid-tunnel facility for the built environment
Transport of tropical fruit from overseas markets to Switzerland

Electrohydrodynamic drying of biomaterials