Dominik Obrist
InterPore Council Members
Ordinary Council Member
Dominik Obrist is Professor of Cardiovascular Engineering at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research of the University of Bern. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and earned his doctoral degree in 2000 at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Washington. From 2000 to 2005, he worked for the supercomputer company Cray Inc. In 2005, Dominik Obrist returned to academia as a senior researcher at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at ETH Zurich, where he established a research group focused on biomedical fluid dynamics. He was appointed Professor of Cardiovascular Engineering in 2013. His main research interests include the design of heart valve prostheses and the development of novel technology for the diagnosis and treatment of microvascular diseases, and he is co-founder of several start-up companies in the MedTech sector.