
Charles Smith
Deputy Head of Institute of Artificial Life and Reserach Group LeaderProf. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos
Director
Prof. Dr. Karl-Hans Englmeier
Deputy director
Claudia Hildebrand
Project manager
Prof. Dr. Gil Westmeyer
Faculty scientist, Group leader
Dr. Xosé Luis Deán Ben
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Hector Estrada
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Sven Gottschalk
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dmitry Bozhko
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Mikhail Mazurenka
Postdoctoral fellow
Panagiotis Symvoulidis
Ph.D. Student
Ali Özbek
Ph.D. Student
Prof. Dr. Daniel Razansky
Affiliated Professor
Ines Baumgartner
Assistant
Dr. Veronika Erben
Project manager
Dr. Julia Thomas
Project Manager (on parental leave)
Susanne Stern
Assistant
Silvia Weinzierl
AssistantSarah Glasl
TechnicianUwe Klemm
Technician
Ahne Myklatun
PhD Student
Hannes Rolbieski
Technician
Dr. Hailong He
Group LeaderDr. Andreas Hillmair
Deputy Director - Operations
Dr. Antonella Lauri
Postdoctoral fellow
Oleksiy Degtyaruk
Master student, wiss. Hilfskraft
M.Sc. Ivan Olefir
Ph.D. Student
Georg Wissmeyer
Ph.D. Student
Felix Sigmund
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Juan Aguirre
Group Leader
Roman Shnaiderman
Ph.D. Student
Yuanhui Huang
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Josefine Reber
Group Leader
Hong Yang
Ph.D. Student
Johannes Rebling
Ph.D. Student
Ludwig Prade
Ph.D. Student
Paul Vetschera
Ph.D. StudentDr. Doris Bengel
Laboratory manager
Marwan Muhammad
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Jaber Malekzadeh
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Markus Seeger
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Andriy Chmyrov
Group LeaderProf. Dr. André C. Stiel
Group Leader
Andrei Berezhnoi
Ph.D. Student
Francisco Oyaga
Ph.D. Student
Angelos Karlas, MD; Dipl-Ing.
Group Leader; Clinical Translation Manager
Dr. Saak V. Ovsepian
Senior Investigator, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Ina Maria Weidenfeld
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Rafael Pleitez
Affiliated Professor
Maria Anastasopoulou
Ph.D. StudentDr. Dimitris Gorpas
Group Leader
Dr. Barbara Schroeder
Head of Fundraising & Communication
M.Sc. Antonios Stylogiannis
Ph.D. Student
Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong
Ph.D. Student
Ruth Hillermann
Technician
Dr. Roland Boha
IT-Systemadministrator
Michael Reiss
Technical Support
Ben McLarney
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Zhenyue Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Qutaiba Mustafa
Ph.D. Student
Susanne Pettinger
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Evangelos Liapis
Postdoctoral fellow
Prof. George Sergiadis
Visitor ProfessorDr. Vipul Gujrati
Group Leader
Dr. Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner
Visiting Scientist
Yuan Gao
Ph. D. Student
Ivana Ivankovic
Ph. D. Student
Dr. Korbinian Paul-Yuan
Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Karl-Hans Englmeier
Apl. Professor at the LMU
Bingwen Wang
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Benedikt Hindelang
Postdoctoral fellow
Parastoo Afshari
Ph.D. Student
Kaushik Basak Chowdhury
Ph.D. Student
Zak Ali
Ph.D. Student
Mir Mehdi Seyedebrahimi
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Christian Zakian
Group leader
Avihai Ron
Ph. D. Student
Dr. Melanie Kimm
Visiting ScientistPia Anzenhofer
Technician
Lidia Seidl
Assistant
Kanuj Mishra
Ph.D. Student
Benedikt Schätz
Internship
Silviu Bodea
Ph.D. Student
Neda Davoudi
Ph. D. Student
Dr. Marlene Bamberg
Project manager
Dr. Nian Liu
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Volker Neuschmelting
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam Serhan
Ph. D. Student
Urs Hofmann
Ph.D. Student
Cagla Özsoy
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Niklas Markwardt
Postdoctoral fellowDr. Dominik Jüstel
Group Leader
Dr. José Alberto Aguilar Mora
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prof. Andreas Mandelis
Visitor Professor
Dr. Antonia Longo
Ph.D. Student)
Nikolina-Alexia Fasoula
Ph.D. Student
Ana-Beatrice Milik
Internship
Dr. Alice Soldà
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Kausik Basak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Saad Amin
HiWi
Dr. Shan Huang
Group Leader
Jan Kukacka
Alumni (Ph.D. Student) - Machine Learning and Image Analysis for Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Pouyan Mohajerani
Group LeaderSuhanyaa Nitkunanantharajah
Postdoc - Machine Learning and Data Analysis for Optoacoustic Sensing
Dr. Katharina Schaar
Executive Assistant to Prof. Ntziachristos
Shyam Srinivasan
HiWi
Jesús Banda
Visitor Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Stefanie Meister
On parental leave
Nikolaus Knauer
Master student
Courtney Restivo
Master Student, wiss. Hilfskraft
Vassilis Sarantos
Visiting senior scientist
Dr. Wouter Nagengast
Visiting senior scientist
Dr. Yu-Shan Huang
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Nike Tsalas
Project Manager
Vijitha Periyasamy
Ph. D. Student
Dr. Manfred Türke
Head of Project Management & Communications
Nurettin Okan Ülgen
Ph.D. Student
Mariia Stankevych
Ph.D. Student
Magdalena Hutter
Master Student
Megan Goh
Visitor Scientist
Ana Orive Benito
Visitor Scientist
Adrian Rodriguez Contreras
Visitor Scientist
Tao Yuan
Ph.D. Student
Christopher Watanabe
Master Student; HiWi
Dr. Misun Yun
Postdoctoral fellowFrancesca Gasparin
Ph.D. Student
Julia Fleig
Ph.D. Student
Stefan Matl
Visitor Scientist
Han Xu
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Sabrina Marcazzan
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Edgar Garduno
Visitor Scientist
Christine Schönmann
Visiting Scientist
Dr. Barbara Stiller

Dr. Nasire Uluc
Postdoctoral fellow
Johannes Melcher
Ph.D. Student
Christoph Dehner
Ph.D. Student)
Dr. Mariia Efremova
Visiting Scientist
Florian Heemeyer
Master Student, wiss. Hilfskraft
Nadja Bekele
Ph.D. Student
Philipp Rauschendorfer
Ph.D. Student
Jakob Reichmann
Master Student; HiWi
Mirjam Visscher
Internship
Anja Ammer (Stelzl)
Technical AssistantAnna Tenditnaya
Ph.D. StudentDelin Li
Ph.D. Student
Stefan Gerl
Master Student
Dr. Michael Bariotakis
Postdoctoral fellow
Tai Anh La
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Ute Chambers
Scientific Fundraising Manager
Dr. Angelika Veziridis
Scientific Fundraising Manager
Dr. Robert Wilson
Scientific writer
Dr. Lucas Ríobo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Anna Hüfner
Medtech Project manager
Ivo Lipkowitsch
Ph.D. Student
Shao-Chieh Chen
Ph.D. StudentDr. Philipp Köhler
Group Leader
Chen Yang
Ph.D. Student
Georgios Tsekas
Master Student
Yixin Cheng
Internship
Mingxin Teng
Internship
Dr. Xiaopeng Ma
Postdoctoral fellow (On parental leave)Maria Begona Rojas Lopez
Ph.D. Student - System Characterization and Data AnalysisElena Kriukova
Ph.D. Student
Tao Shen
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Christina Nagler
On parental leave
Dr. Nikolaos-Kosmas Chlis
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Bettina Lehman
Executive Science Coordinator – Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos
Dr. Augusto Gallego Arias
Postdoctoral fellow
Nikoletta Katsouli
Ph.D. Student
Aizada Nurdinova
HiWi
Dr. Mingchuan Zhou

Tobias Köllen
Master Student
Teresa Nau
Visiting Scientist
Dr. Sergey Sulima
Scientific writer
Linda Hädrich
Ph.D. StudentMaximilian Bader
Ph.D. Student - Modeling and System Characterization
Hossain Shakih Saadi
Master student
Mykhailo Kulakov
Master student
Marcel Lucien Kollovieh
Master student
Emmanouil Seferis
Master student
Anja Zenz
Master student
Ana Radutoiu
Master student
Alba Gómez-Segalàs
HiWi
Lorenzo Zinna
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Manoj Kumar Dasa
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Frida Hauler
Postdoctoral fellowLudwig Englert
Ph.D. Student
Edouard Coussoux
Guest
Dr. Guillaume Zahnd
Guest
Dr. Natasa Anastasov
Group Leader
Dr. Omid Azimzadeh
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Soile Tapio
Postdoctoral fellow
Itunu Eno Essien
Ph.D. Student
Nina Molina Jaramillo
HiWi
Yinghuimin Guo
Ph.D. StudentDr. Yishu Huang
Guest Scientist
Hao Li
Ph.D. Student
Klea Ricku
InternshipLukas Platz
Ph.D. Student - Probabilistic Reconstruction and System Characterization
Patmaa Sridharan
Ph.D. Student
Mario Reidl
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Ivy Curren
Deputy Director - Research
Simon Schneider
Visiting Scientist
Johanna Trommer
HiWi
Dr. Osman Sayginer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anna Weber
Master Student
Ádám Apró
HiWi
Klaudia Winkler
Technician
Jim Zhao
HiWi
Dr. Chloé Scordel
Scientific Fundraising Manager
Priyavathi Dhandapani
Internship
Simon Göllner
Ph.D. Student
Sara Haka
Internship
Claudia Hofmann
HiWi
Caique de Oliveira Kobayashi
Student Assistant
Jiakun Yu
Internship
Ge Zhang
HiWiDr. Davide Di Giuseppe
Postdoc
Dr. Nikita Kuldyushev
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yi Xie
Ph.D. Student
Leonard Reidiess
HiWiBayan Alkotub
Ph.D. StudentMohammed Azeem
Ph.D. StudentPhilipp Haim
Ph.D. Student - Probabilistic Reconstruction and Fluence Modeling
Myeongseop Kim
Ph.D. Student
Nikolaos Ntelopoulos
HiWi
Dr. Zohaib Nisar Khan
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Chiara Fischer
Visiting ScientistSarah Franceschin
Ph.D. Student - Tissue Characterization and Data Analysis in OptoaousticsManuel Gehmeyr
Ph.D. Student - Mathematical Modeling and Data Analysis for Optoacoustic Sensing
Sarkis Ter Martirosyan
Ph.D. Student - Data-driven Optoacoustics for MetabolismDr. Thi Bich Tram Do
Postdoctoral fellow - Inverse Problems in OptoacousticsConstantin Berger
Ph.D. Student - Computational Modeling for Metabolic Sensing and Imaging
Dr. Chadi Abdel Sattar Ibrahim
Physician scientist - Clinical EpidemiologyRiccardo Zulla
Ph.D. Student
David Gorbunov
Ph.D. Student
Felix Dülmer
Ph.D. StudentRichin Sukesh
Ph.D. Student
Dr. Ravikumar Vaghela
PostdocDr. Sabir Ul Alam
Postdoc
Noora Al-Naimi
IT Administrator
Laura Baillie
Working StudentDr. Elisa Bonnin
Scientific WriterKarla Buortmes
AssistantTianshou Cao
Ph.D studentDr. Somik Chakravarty
Scientific Fundraising ManagerShijia Chen
Ph.D student
Evangelos Fragkiadakis
Student Assistant
Dr. Frank-Dieter Filbir
Group Leader
Dr. Tobias Fromme
GuestDr. Javier Garcia Lopez
Postdoc
Dr. Mary Gazea
Project Manager
Maximilian Gotsch
Ph.D. Student
Timon Grosch
Student Assistant
Neval Gündogan
Master StudentJasmin Häberle
Ph.D. Student
Hauer Isabella
Student Assistant
Michael Heiss
GuestDr. Ajay Kesharwani
Postdoc
Huma Khatoon
Ph.D. Student
Maximilian Koch
GuestJohannes Kunz
Ph.D. StudentDr. Serene Lee
Scientific Writer
Dr. Rhiannon Lees
PostdocDr. Corinna Lieleg
Executive Scientific CoordinatorPanhang Liu
Ph.D. StudentStephanie Montag
AssistantDr. Kenana Muaiad Al Adem
Postdoc
Dr. Heiko Ott
MedTech Director
Bjarne Perleberg
Ph.D. Student
Alexander Prebeck
Ph.D. Student
Jiawang Qiu
Ph.D. StudentLorenzo Ricciardi
Ph.D. StudentErik Riedel
Ph.D. Student
Elsa Rodrigues
Ph.D. Student
Patricia Römer
GuestAlexander Ross
Ph.D. Student
Raphael Salz
Ph.d. StudentBernadette Scherer
ScientistDominik Selzner
Ph.D. StudentDr. Divyesh Shelar
PostdocDr. Shilpa Tayal
PostdocDr. Juliana Valle
Project Manager
Dr. Anna Villar-Piqué
Project Manager
Bingzhi Wang
Ph.D. StudentPatrick Wustrow
Clinical ScientistDr. Uli Stahl
Group Leader
Anna Gawehn
Student Assistant
Alina Peterandel
Guest
Virginia Verna
Student AssistantDr. Janna Nawroth
Principal InvestigatorJames Taylor
Scientist
Sebastian Herr
Ph.D. Student
Aleksandra Kolbasnikova
Student Assistant
Dr. Alexa Hasenbach
Postdoc
Linnea Luoma-Aho
Student Assistant
Ivo Reiss (Lipkowitsch)
Ph.D. Student
Eleni Andreadaki
Working Student
Alishbah Maqsood
Guest
Abeer Banerjee
Ph.D. studentDimitrios Pantazopoulos
Scientist
Qiongjie Ding
Ph.D. studentSangmun Lee
Intern
Sara Selim
Master StudentJoshua Aulenbacher
Clinical ScientistVictor Leopoldo Cano
Master Student
Amira Tuktarova
Student AssistantMiro Kolenic
Master Student
Malik Nofal
Master Student
Aikaterini Mavroudi
Master Student
Björn Puttfarcken
Ph.D. Student