About us
Who are we
StimuLOOP is a consortium with the aim to enable personalized neurorehabilitation. Our goal is to signifcantly improve precision rehabilitation through personalized stimulation loops. The composition of university, hospital and rehabilitation clinic guarantees a discipline-related and additionally an interdisciplinary approach. The central competencies of the reserach teams consist of relevant technical and methodological knowledge.
Our scientific work is mainly carried out in seven research groups, including three research groups at the ETH, two groups at the University Hospital Zurich, one research group at the Children’s Hospital Zurich, and one research group at the Cereneo rehabilitation clinic.
Steering Committee
Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Luft
Head Physician Stroke Center
Departement of Neurology
University Hosptial Zurich
Prof. William Taylor
ETH - LMB
Prof. Reto Huber
KISPI
Prof. Dr. Ing. Roger Gassert
Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering
Department of Health Sciences and Technology
ETH Zurich
Prof. Julia Vogt
ETH - MDS
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Baumann
USZ - Dep. Neurology
Project Managment
Dr. Chris Awai
Scientific Project Leader
Cefir
Belen Valladeres
Study Coordinator
Cefir
Young Principal Investigators
Dr. Olivier Lambercy
Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Dr. med. Meret Branscheidt
Cereneo
Dr. Angelina Maric
Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Researchers
Dr. Maria Laura
Ferster
Technician
Kispi
#SleepLOOP
Dr. Mathilde
Lestoille
Postdoctoral Fellow
UZH
#GaitLab
#RELab
Dr. Deepak
Ravi
Postdoctoral Fellow
ETH - LMB
#RELab
#Hololens
#LeoMed
I am a Postdoc working at the Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich. My research interests include identifying specific movement-based biomarkers from clinical and objective evaluations of gait both before and after treatments as well as inside and outside (using wearables) the laboratory setting.
Dr. Mathias
Bannwart
Technician
Cereneo
#GaitLab
#Hololens
Mathias got his PhD in Health Science and Technology from ETH in 2021, following completion of a master’s degree in Neural Systems and Computation and an internship in the rehabilitation technology industry. In 2021, he joined the cereneo Foundation as a research associate and developer for virtual and augmented reality applications. His research focuses on the effect of visual cueing on gait impairments as well as activity and heart rate monitoring to better understand recovery after stroke.
Andre Böni
Doctoral student
UZH
#Hyper Personalized Feedback
As former application developer and physiotherapist, I am highly interested in the technological possibilities of rehabilitation. I am confident a combination of objective technologies and humaneness will sustainably improve rehabilitation.
Zhonke Mei
Doctoral student
ETH - LMB
#ZurichMove
I am a PhD student in Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, ETHz. I focus on gait symptoms and bio-electric signals in DBS therapy and I am also a big fan of multiple outdoor activities.
Alain Ryser
Doctoral student
ETH - MDS
#LeoMed
I’m part of the medical data science group of Julia Vogt at ETH Zürich, where we research a broad range of machine learning-related topics that can be applied to problems in health care. In the StimuLOOP project, I will work on the overarching analysis of all data generated across the subprojects. From this, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of Parkinson’s and Stroke to, e.g., plan and personalize rehabilitation in a data-driven way or predict treatment effects from initial measurements.
Lena Salzmann
Doctoral student
ETH - LMB
#DBS
Born in Vorarlberg, Austria, Lena studied Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich and started her doctoral studies at RELab in December 2021. Within StimuLOOP, her research is focused on personalized rehabilitation of gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease, using a neurofeedback loop. Her long-term research goals include furthering personalized treatment approaches by giving individualized feedback based on neurological signals from the deep brain to Parkinson’s patients.
Vanessa Kasties
Doctoral student
Kispi
#SleepLOOP
I joined Reto Huber’s lab as a PhD student in November 2021, after concluding my Master’s studies in Neural and Behavioral Sciences in Tübingen with a thesis about integrating neuroimaging-based white-matter disconnection metrics with lesion information to improve the prediction of behavioral deficits after stroke. Moving forward, I became interested in sleep as it is impaired in many neurological and psychiatric diseases, making it a promising, yet understudied clinical target. As a sleep scientist, I always encourage my friends to try and get enough sleep when, for myself, that is hardly ever true (at least when I have night recordings).
Nora Moser
Doctoral student
USZ
#SleepLOOP
I am a neuroscientist and sleep researcher at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ). My research focuses on how auditory sleep stimulation affects the symptoms of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, namely Parkinson’s disease.
Partner
Our broad network enables us to realize and rapidly implement the latest findings on neurorehabilitation options. Our partners are clinical partners, academic partners and business partners.
