The people behind SwissAnon
A network across FHNW, BFH, UZH, and ZHAW — researchers and practitioners working on data anonymization and synthetic data.
Core team
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Matthias Templ Lead
Professor for Empirical Methods and Business Analytics
FHNW · ETH Zürich
Works on compositional data analysis, imputation of missing values, and data anonymization. Editor-in-Chief of the Austrian Journal of Statistics, author of a textbook on statistical disclosure control, and maintainer of the sdcMicro and simPop R packages — on CRAN since 2010.
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Murat Sariyar Co-lead
Professor for Medical Informatics
BFH · University of Bern
A mathematician whose interests span anonymization, record linkage, deep learning, bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, natural-language processing, ontologies, and the broader question of identity.
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Oscar Thees
Research associate · PhD student
FHNW · TU Wien
An economist researching the anonymization of event and longitudinal data with privacy-preserving technologies.
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Roman Müller
PhD student · Research associate
UZH · FHNW
Develops anonymization techniques for longitudinal and network data, where each record connects to many others.
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Marko Miletic
Project collaborator & software developer
BFH — Institute for Optimization and Data Analysis
Builds anonymization methods for event and longitudinal data, turning research into tools the industry and health sector can run in production.
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Extended team & specialisms
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Carolin Strobl
Head of research unit
UZH — Department of Psychology
Leads a research unit in psychological methods and sits on the steering committee of the Center for Reproducible Science. She promotes anonymization and synthetic data as a way to share sensitive data in the spirit of Open Science.
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Reto Bürgin
Lecturer
ZHAW — Institute for Data Analysis and Process Design
Focuses on the practical problems of data anonymization and on the guidelines, illustrations, and help tools that make it usable in day-to-day work.
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