Ursula Maria Mayer - Business Mentor

Q: Where is Ursula based?

Ursula is based in Zürich, Switzerland and prefers 100% remote projects.

Q: What languages does Ursula speak?

Ursula speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Latin (Advanced), French (Elementary), Italian (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Ursula have?

Ursula has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Ursula has worked in at least 13 different roles and for 13 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 6 months . Note that Ursula may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Ursula's latest experience?

Ursula's most recent position is Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels .

Q: What companies has Ursula worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ursula has worked for RoleModel Rebels , HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration , ForHumanity , KEY2BE.ME – Berufsorientierung im Netzwerk , and SCiFORM GmbH .

Q: Which industries is Ursula most experienced in?

Ursula is most experienced in industries like Arts and Crafts , Education , and Information Technology (IT) . Ursula also has some experience in Energy , Aerospace and Defense , and Utility Services .

Q: Which business areas is Ursula most experienced in?

Ursula is most experienced in business areas like Product Development , Information Technology (IT) , and Research and Development (R&D) . Ursula also has some experience in Marketing , Sustainability Management , and Strategy and Planning .

Q: Which industries has Ursula worked in recently?

Ursula has recently worked in industries like Arts and Crafts , Information Technology (IT) , and Aerospace and Defense .

Q: Which business areas has Ursula worked in recently?

Ursula has recently worked in business areas like Marketing , Information Technology (IT) , and Research and Development (R&D) .

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Zürich, Switzerland

Experience

May 2021 - Present

4 years 10 months

Klosters-Serneus, Switzerland

Business Mentor

RoleModel Rebels

Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.

Mar 2021 - Present

5 years

Zürich, Switzerland

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration

Teach business and tech leaders in various MBA and CAS programs, covering topics such as machine learning and generative AI in finance and controlling, AI in digital ethics, AI-driven business models and operations, operationalizing AI ethics, AI regulations, and auditing AI systems.
Equip participants with the knowledge and tools needed to integrate AI solutions effectively and responsibly into their organizations.

Feb 2021 - Present

5 years 1 month

New York, United States

Contributor to an Independent Audit of AI Systems

ForHumanity

Contribute expertise in AI algorithms, AI ethics and AI management to help develop an Independent Audit of AI Systems for ForHumanity, a crowd-sourced non-profit organization.

Jan 2021 - Aug 2024

3 years 8 months

Lübeck, Germany

Advisory Board Member for Responsible AI

KEY2BE.ME – Berufsorientierung im Netzwerk

Consulted on the use of responsible AI from strategic, technical and ethical perspectives for equal opportunities in career orientation.

Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

1 year 1 month

London, United Kingdom

Advisory Board Member of the Entrepreneurship Group

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association

Advised HBA members on entrepreneurship.

Aug 2017 - Present

8 years 7 months

AI Consultant, Entrepreneur & Founder

SCiFORM GmbH

Lead an award-winning company that offers technical, ethical, and strategic consulting services at the intersection of AI, Quantum Computing, and High-Performance Computing.
Provide consulting services in AI architecture, Data Science, ML Engineering, AI strategy, AI management, training and educational workshops, designing AI algorithms and numerical methods, and developing highly scalable distributed software solutions.
Work with freelancers and tech partners to provide customers with full end-to-end software solutions.
Selected consulting and development projects:
AI Architect & Senior ML Engineer for the Just Ask capability of Joule, an AI copilot and LLM agent for the Analytics Cloud at SAP.
AI Architect & Senior ML Engineer for LLM agents supporting several internal stakeholder groups at the Swiss Health Insurer Sanitas.
Interim Data Science Team Lead & AI Architect at the European E-commerce store Flaconi, Berlin, responsible for over 30 ML services.
AI Architect & Senior Data Scientist for a deep reinforcement learning service, Telefonica, München.
Data Science Team Lead for the privacy-by-design audio AI backend SyncStage in AWS, OpenSesame Media Inc., California.
Image processing algorithms for an AI-driven autonomous flight control software including GPU-parallelization, Daedalean, Zürich.
Optimization of two novel AI-based automatic energy trading solutions including MultiGPU+OpenMP parallelization, AXPO, Baden.

Nov 2015 - Sep 2017

1 year 11 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Lead Data Scientist and Senior Software Engineer (Mission Owner)

Adnovum AG

Technical lead for the first AI-based continuous authentication & risk-detection component "nevisDetect" in the NEVIS security suite, deployed in many financial institutions and government offices in Switzerland and other countries.
Communicate, collaborate and scope projects with stakeholders including the board, C-suite, customers, malware & network experts, and IT security scientists from ETH Zürich.
Design and develop the adaptive context-aware authentication tool of nevisDetect for client-side and network layer data evaluation based on rules.
Design and develop the continuous authentication and risk detection tool of nevisDetect using advanced machine/deep-learning and anomaly detection algorithms.

Jul 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year 4 months

Winterthur, Switzerland

Computational Scientist and Senior Software Engineer

Fluxim AG, ZHAW

Technical lead for the design and development of LAOSS, a novel software for large-area semiconductor device simulation used worldwide in the OLED and solar cell industries.
Collaborate and scope projects with customers and OLED and solar cell scientists from academia and industry.
Numerically develop a Finite Element Method for the simulation of large-area OLEDs and solar cells.
Design a parallel HPC architecture for LAOSS and implement the numerics core.
Design and develop a Mie Scattering Module in SETFOS.
Contribute to several successful KTI and EU grants.

Jan 2014 - Present

12 years 2 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Fine Art Photographer

Fine Arts – Ursula Maria Mayer

Exhibit fine art photography in Switzerland and abroad.

Jun 2011 - Dec 2013

2 years 7 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Research Computational Scientist

Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU) at ETH Zurich

Design, develop and extend the MPI & GPU-parallelized numerics core for the water resources management software "FreshWaterSupply" in collaboration with 4Dimensional GmbH.
Numerically extend Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods for statistical modelling and multi-parameter optimization in groundwater flow, contaminant transport and multiphase flow for sustainable water resources management.
Contribute to several successful EU and World Bank grants.

Dec 2007 - May 2011

3 years 6 months

Munich, Germany

Research Scientist and Software Engineer

International Graduate School of CSE, TU München

Numerically develop novel FSI-related Finite Element Methods for nano/micro-scale material simulations.
Implement in a massively parallel multiphysics HPC code.

Oct 2006 - Sep 2007

1 year

Zürich, Switzerland

Research Computational Scientist

Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU) at ETH Zurich

Design, develop and extend the MPI & GPU-parallelized numerics core for the water resources management software "FreshWaterSupply" in collaboration with 4Dimensional GmbH.
Numerically extend Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods for statistical modelling and multi-parameter optimization in groundwater flow, contaminant transport and multiphase flow.
Contribute to successful EU and World Bank grants.

Jul 2006 - Sep 2007

1 year 3 months

Braunschweig, Germany

Research Assistant and Software Engineer

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Numerically develop a novel semi-implicit time-integration scheme for CFD aerodynamics simulations.
Implement in the massively parallel DLR tau-code used widely in the European aerospace industry.

Jul 2004 - Dec 2011

7 years 6 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Managing Director & Co-founder

4Dimensional GmbH

Design, develop and productize "FreshWaterSupply", a decision support software for ecologically and economically sustainable water resources management, jointly developed with the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich.

Summary

I support my clients in the development of production-grade responsible AI solutions with advanced algorithms and state-of-the-art AI engineering & infrastructure.

Skills

Ai & Ml Libraries: Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow, Huggingface, Scikit-learn, Xgboost, Langchain, Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Etc.
Big Data: Apache Spark Ecosystem, Airflow, Kafka, Hive And Further Apache Services
Cloud Platforms: Aws Sagemaker And Further Aws Ml & Big Data Services, Ms Azure, Ms Azure Ml, Ms Azure Openai And Further Ms Azure Ml & Big Data Services, Gcp Ai Platform, Gcp Vertex Ai And Further Gcp Ml & Big Data Services
Quantum Computing: Qiskit, Pennylane
Programming: Python, C/c++ (Cuda, Mpi, Openmp, Stl, Boost, Opencv, ...), Java, Scala, C#, R
Devops & Mlops: Aws Sagemaker Pipelines, Aws Codepipeline, Mlflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, Cmake
Software: Databricks, Mathematica, Matlab, Most Ides, Latex

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Latin

Advanced

French

Elementary

Italian

Elementary

Education

Oct 2005 - Oct 2007

TU München

Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), passed with distinction and ranked first · Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) · Munich, Germany

Oct 2000 - Oct 2005

ETH Zürich

Master of Science ETH in Civil Engineering, Culmann award for my master's thesis at the Center for Mechanics, ETH · Civil Engineering · Zürich, Switzerland

Oct 1989 - Oct 1998

Gymnasium bei St. Stephan

Abitur (German Highschool Degree) · Augsburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IBM Qiskit ‑ Certificate of Quantum Excellence

IBM

Certificate in QuantumMachine Learning

NITheP

Profile

Created

December 2024

Last Update

June 2025

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Ursula based?

Ursula is based in Zürich, Switzerland and prefers 100% remote projects.

What languages does Ursula speak?

Ursula speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Latin (Advanced), French (Elementary), Italian (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Ursula have?

Ursula has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Ursula has worked in at least 13 different roles and for 13 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 6 months. Note that Ursula may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ursula be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ursula would be well-suited for roles such as: Business Mentor, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Contributor to an Independent Audit of AI Systems.

What is Ursula's latest experience?

Ursula's most recent position is Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels.

What companies has Ursula worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ursula has worked for RoleModel Rebels, HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration, ForHumanity, KEY2BE.ME – Berufsorientierung im Netzwerk, and SCiFORM GmbH.

Which industries is Ursula most experienced in?

Ursula is most experienced in industries like Arts and Crafts, Education, and Information Technology (IT). Ursula also has some experience in Energy, Aerospace and Defense, and Utility Services.

Which business areas is Ursula most experienced in?

Ursula is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology (IT), and Research and Development (R&D). Ursula also has some experience in Marketing, Sustainability Management, and Strategy and Planning.

Which industries has Ursula worked in recently?

Ursula has recently worked in industries like Arts and Crafts, Information Technology (IT), and Aerospace and Defense.

Which business areas has Ursula worked in recently?

Ursula has recently worked in business areas like Marketing, Information Technology (IT), and Research and Development (R&D).

What is Ursula's education?

Ursula holds a Master in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) from TU München and a Master in Civil Engineering from ETH Zürich.

Does Ursula have any certificates?

Ursula has 2 certificates. These include: IBM Qiskit ‑ Certificate of Quantum Excellence and Certificate in QuantumMachine Learning.

What is the availability of Ursula?

Ursula is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Ursula?

Ursula's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.