Biography
Dominique Olivier Windisch is currently a PhD student working in the Structure and Mechanics of Advanced Materials group at PSI and enrolled at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Previously, he received a bachelor's and master’s degree, the later with a major in Medical Technology, in Health Sciences and Technology from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).
During his master studies, he focused on cross-disciplinary topics surrounding the human health, namely techniques and topics from biomedical imaging, biomechanics and tissue engineering. He conducted a research internship at the Laboratory for Bone Biomechanics of ETH where he contributed to the construction and validation of a computational pipeline for the analysis of bone-remodeling, based on imaging data from HR-pQCT scans.
He obtained first teaching experiences while working as a teaching assistant for the two lectures “Imaging and Computing in Medicine“ and “Materials and Mechanics in Medicine“ at ETH during his master studies.
His master thesis at the Medical Microsystems Laboratory of ETH provided an insight into a different field: using magnetic cues to guide bacteria as tumor targeting agents.
Scientific Research
In February 2025, he joined PSI to contribute to the multi-scale exploration of mineralized biological tissue of different species using small-angle X-ray scattering tensor tomography and complementary imaging modalities.