Swiss Electrical Engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the ETH Zürich. Postdoc at the University of Utah with projects for NASA and the Anesthesia Safety foundation. Was R&D engineer for Hamilton Medical and created the closed-loop controlled ventilator line for the company, including ASV and Intellivent. Founded and co-founded swisstom AG (non-invasive lung imaging), Organis GmbH (adult lung simulators) and neosim AG (neonatal lung simulator). Since fall 2022, Josef is retired and does not receive any renumeration from these companies. In Mai 2024 he resigned as member of the a board of directors of neosim and has no ownership, affiliations or obligations towards or in any of the companies he was involved in.
Josef has published articles in the field of mechanical ventilation, respiratory monitoring, physiological modelling, sensor technology and simulation based training and teaching in peer reviewed journals and a number of monographs. An incomplete list can be created by using PubMed and the author Brunner JX (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=brunner+jx&sort=date). He is inventor in a number of patents for the companies he worked for.
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