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 by training and a research associate in the Data Science and Empirical Research Group at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). He is doing his PhD at TU Wien on the anonymization of event and longitudinal data using 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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