A modern take on traditional medico-botanical recipes Rhizomi is the name of our herbal studio that aims at reviving traditional herbal recipes. Inspired by ancient Kyphi recipes we set out to create our own blend of this precious incense mixture (pics Werkstatt / Link to FabLab). Since then, we also organise workshops and guided excursions on herbalism traditional medine
Seeing the unseen Microscopy teaches to pay attention to detail while having an eye on the whole. Apart from their scientific value, microscapes are also wonderful playgrounds with powerful artistic potential.
Machine learning-based identification of Chinese herbal medicine. Phydent is a commercial machine learning tool for the identification of Chinese Herbal remedies. It allows pharmacies to safely and efficiently identify herbal products based on infrared spectroscopy. Developed for Complemedis a Swiss TCM-pharmacy.
CNN-based identification of starch in microscopic images StarchID aimed at developing a deep neural network pipeline for the automatic identification of starch granules in microscopic imagery. Convolutional neural networks were trained on microscopic images of ten salient starch staples and used to classify unknown images. This project was my course assignment for the CAS Artificial Intelligence at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and still under development. Raw images can be downloaded here. The Jupyter Notebook can be found here.
Herbal drugs in European tradition – A phylogenetic, chemosensory and neuropharmacological approach
Incense and ritual plant use in Southwest China: A case study among the Bai in Shaxi In my Msc project I studied contemporary ritual plant use of the Bai of Shaxi (Jianchuan County, Yunnan Province). A total of 17 plant species have been documented, including related ethnobotanical knowledge, practices, and believes. Smoke of the most salient species has been chemically characterised in the lab.
Hut warden in the upper Maggia Valley (Ticino, Switzerland)
Urban gardening project in Lucerne (Switzerland) The Neugarten urban gardening project is located on the premises of Neubad, which is an interim use of an indoor swimming pool at the heart of Lucerne. Our garden connects interesting people with a passion for plants and environmental issues.