Lenz Furrer

Lenz Furrer is the current head of engineering at TextShuttle. Lenz has held this position for 2 years and 2 months. Prior to that, they worked at the University of Zurich for 7 years in various roles, including PhD student, teaching associate, researcher, and teaching associate. Lenz also spent a year as a scientific researcher at the Staatsarchiv d. Kantons Zürich. In addition, Lenz Furrer has experience as an organist, having worked in this role for 8 years at the Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Neuhausen am Rheinfall.

Lenz Furrer has a PhD from the University of Zurich in Biomedical Text Mining, which they completed in 2020. Lenz also has a Master of Arts from the University of Zurich in Computational Linguistics, which they completed in 2013, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Zurich in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, which they completed in 2011. In 2018, they did a research visit at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku.

Lenz Furrer leads a small team of software engineers that includes Patrick Düggelin, Simon Schölly, Nicolas Spring, and Alexander Gschwend. The team is responsible for developing and maintaining software applications.