Martin Etzrodt

Director of the Open Science Institute in Interlaken, the research arm of the Swiss Open Science Foundation, which funds and governs it. I work on open and collaborative science: open hardware, open health and open infrastructure.

What I build and contribute to

Open-hardware biophoton microscope, built with openUC2 in Jena. First measurement campaign June 2026. Results
Biophoton / Ultra-Weak Photon Emission Field Map: 18,355 works and 39,312 authors, scored for openness. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21466493
Open Biocenter, a remotely operated biology platform hosted at the institute. biocenter.opening.science · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22685449
OpenTwin XR and the open-twin FHIR connectors for open digital-twin tooling. Opening-Science
Conjecture, an open hypothesis hub, with its biophoton domain pack.

Background

I am a biochemist by training and worked as an immunologist and stem cell scientist through my PhD and postdoc. I got my PhD from the Université de Lausanne, with doctoral research at Harvard Medical School, and did postdoctoral work at Helmholtz Zentrum München and ETH Zürich. In a 2018 essay (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1156360) I introduced the idea of decentralizing science and set out my vision of how open science should evolve on the web. I chair the ISCC Foundation.