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Dr. Thomas Lumpe
Co-Founder, CEO - Thomas is the CEO of breathe and responsible for the business development. He finished his PhD at ETH in April 2021 in the field of computational design and optimization.
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Dr. Leonie Korn
Co-Founder, CTO - Leonie is the technical lead at the breathe project, where she is responsible for implementing new sensor concepts to improve patient monitoring and ventilator control.
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Christos Vasileiou
Co-Founder, CQO - Christos is the head of Quality and Regulatory at breathe. He has a background in mechanical engineering and worked in MedTech start-ups before
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Dr. med. Lukas J. Kandler
Lukas is anesthetist with more than 17 years of experience, emergency physician, filmmaker, as well as Co-Founder and CMO of precisionED AG, which is providing the prepared App.
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Prof. Kristina Shea
Kristina is a Full Professor for Engineering Design and Computing at ETH and initiated the breathe project as a response to the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020. Her background is in product development, engineering design, optimization, and additive manufacturing.
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Prof. Melanie Zeilinger
Melanie heads the Intelligent Control Systems Group at the Institute of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich and has strong experience in high performance control for safety-critical systems.
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Dr. Marianne Schmid Daners
Marianne is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH. In her group, the knowledge base for standardized testing of low-cost ventilators according to international standards was developed.
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Dr. med. Adrian Marty
Adi is an anaesthesiologist at the USZ in Zurich with more than 15 years experience in anesthesia and emergeny medicine.
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Martin Meier
Martin is an Industrial Designer and previous Design Director at IDEO, now a Lecturer and MA-Product Lead at ZHdK. His field of expertise is in UX, Human Centered and Strategic Design.
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Milena Overhoff
Milena is a PhD student at the Engineering Design and Computing Lab at ETH. Her research focuses on the life cycle of devices for low-resource settings.
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PD Dr. Vanessa Moll
Vanessa is an intensivist and anaesthesiologist who trained in Germany and the USA. She is CMO at a start-up in Silicon Valley. She previously worked at USZ, at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, where she still holds a position as adjunct professor. Vanessa has over 10 years of experience in global health with a focus on capacity building.
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Filip Henzler
Filip is advising on all matters relating to finance, business development and operational excelency. He has 24 years experience in corporate finance advisory, private equity and turn-around management. He holds an lic. oec from the University of Zürich in economics.
Alumni
Sara Mettler
Jonas Botzenhardt
Claudio Chies
Raffael Kunz
Tim Grossrieder
Samuel Thalmann
Yeiny Karina Ordonez Gonzalez
Mathew Mohan
Martin Guggemos
Fabrizio Di Giuro
Christoph Salzer
Lau Stokholm
Joseph Injodikaran
Leander Ullmann
Timo Spörri
Dunja Cekic
Thomas Birchler
Pablo Kolb
Yi-Tau Ly
Matthias Brandes
Fausto De Angelis
Pit Peiffer
Dr. Aleksandra Sadowska
Florian Wenk
Corentin Pfister
Geroge Birchenough
Dr. Andrea Carron
Nicola Steffen
Niko Tachatos
Dr. Lukas Hewing
Dr. Cosima du Pasquier