Dr. Maria Buechner

A lot of travelling, visiting friends and family and 3 months of converting a sprinter van to a camper van. Currently driving voluntarily for the Swiss Red Cross.

At the Institut for Biomedical Engineering and Paul Scherrer Institut - Task include: Development of grating interferometry based differential phase contrast X-ray CT systems for laboratory applications - Project and Team Management - Supervision and management of students, employees and industrial contacts - Design, testing and commissioning of mechanical, optical and electronic components and systems - Managing first change processes

At the Laboratory for Field Theory and Microwave Technology - Tasks included: modeling of physiological and physical properties regarding optical density changes within the human brain - development of a model of dye distribution and degradation within the human brain and body

At the Philips Chair for Medical Information Technology - Tasks included: project management from concept phase to delivering final prototype - development of software to analyze, display and monitor intracranial pressure and other vital data of intensive care patients - quality control of software and hardware - customer service

At various departments - Tasks included: Tutoring students in the respective courses, e.g. in basics in electromagnetic fields and signal processing

Voluntary internship at the department for radiofrequency technology regarding superconductivity (MHF-sl) - Gaining basic insight into work fields of an electrical engineer

Thesis title: Towards the development of an X-Ray phase contrast breast CT scanner

Molecular Bioengineering - Master Thesis: “Assessment of potential effects of illumination in the near-infrared range on neuronal cell lines and primary neurons” (6.0) - Semester Project: “FluidFM as a scanning probe lithography tool for local electrostimulated polymerization” (5.5)

Major Field of Study: Electrical Power Engineering - Bachelor Thesis: “Modelling of intracranial liquor dynamics with neural networks and simulation of an optimal liquor drainage“ (1.0)