06 About
About
01 Biography
Dr.-Ing.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
I hold a doctoral degree from the IDEA Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), earned within the joint Borderless research group between Imperial College London and FAU, where my doctoral work focused on machine learning for quality control and diagnostic support at the front line of care. From September 2026, I join King’s College London as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, working on the prenatal detection of congenital heart disease.
My research centres on four themes: anomaly and out-of-distribution detection for findings no one has labelled, uncertainty quantification so predictions come with an honest confidence signal, generative modelling to synthesise training data for under-represented anatomy, and data- and resource-efficient learning for small-cohort settings. With my teams, I won the MICCAI Medical Out-of-Distribution (MOOD) Challenge in 2023 and 2024, earning the five-year GOAT prize, and placed third in the CVPR VAND Challenge 2023.
Alongside this methods work, I collaborate with clinical groups on lymphatic perfusion in Fontan patients, pancreas segmentation in diabetes, and heart calcification, and co-organise MICCAI workshops, including on pelvic imaging and ultrasound. I served as Women’s Representative for FAU’s Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering from 2022 to 2026, and have supervised more than fifteen Bachelor’s and Master’s students, alongside one junior PhD student.
02 Education
10/2021 – 08/2026
Dr.-Ing. (PhD)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany — IDEA Lab, joint with Imperial College London, UK
Doctoral thesis: Learning Normative Anatomy under Limited Supervision. Investigates machine learning for quality control and diagnostic support at the front line of care, covering out-of-distribution detection, anomaly detection, multi-modal medical imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound), generative and uncertainty modelling.
10/2018 – 06/2021
M.Sc., Simulation Sciences (Medical Information Technology focus)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Master’s thesis: Algorithm-Based Improvement of Spatial Resolution in Electrical Impedance Tomography (Medical Information Technology / Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering).
10/2014 – 09/2018
B.Sc. (Ing.), Biosystems Engineering
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Bachelor’s thesis: Contribution of Detailed Biochemical Representations to the Predictive Performance of Models for Bioprocess and Design, completed jointly at Insilico Biotechnology AG (Stuttgart) and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (Magdeburg).
03 Experience
Academic
From 09/2026 (expected)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
King's College London, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, UK
11/2025 – present
Affiliate Researcher
University Hospital Erlangen, Department of Radiology, Germany
04/2025 – 04/2026
Visiting Research Associate
King's College London, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, UK
10/2024 – 04/2025
Visiting Researcher
King's College London (School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences) and FRAIYA Ltd., London Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UK
Study
10/2021 – 08/2026
Doctoral Researcher; Lab Study Coordinator
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, IDEA Lab, Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Germany
since 2022
11/2015 – 09/2017
Student Research Assistant
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
Glycomics/Proteomics
09/2013 – 09/2014
Voluntary Research Year
Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Tissue Engineering of Heart Valves
Industry
06/2025 – present
AI Consultant
Independent consulting for (medical imaging) Start-ups
Freelance
10/2017 – 08/2018
Industrial Intern
Insilico Biotechnology AG, Stuttgart, Germany
AI for Metabolic Networks
04 Awards & honours
Awards
2026
MICCAI Outstanding Reviewer Award
MICCAI 2026
2025
Best Poster Award
Bavarian Conference on AI in Medicine, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2025
2025
Women in MICCAI (WiM) Award — Best AI Democratization Paper
MICCAI 2025
Challenges
2023 – 2024
1st Place, Medical Out-of-Distribution (MOOD) Challenge
MICCAI 2023 – 2024
Includes the 5-year GOAT prize.
2023
3rd Place, Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND) Challenge
CVPR 2023
Funding
2024
DAAD Research Stipend for PhD Students
DAAD
Research stay at King’s College London.
Other
2023 – 2024
ARIADNE Mentee
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Programme for promising female early-career researchers.
05 Service
2026
Co-Organiser
MICCAI CAPI & WOMEN Workshop (Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health)
2025
Co-Organiser & Editor
MICCAI 1st International Workshop on Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health (CAPI), Daejeon, South Korea
Edited proceedings, with the 10th International Workshop on Skin Image Analysis (ISIC 2025): Skin Image Analysis, and Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health, Springer Nature. Co-edited with M. E. Celebi, C. Barata, A. Halpern, P. Tschandl, M. Combalia, and others, including M. May.
2023
Co-Organiser & Editor
MICCAI 4th International Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound (ASMUS), Vancouver, Canada
Edited proceedings: Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, Springer Nature LNCS vol. 14337. Co-edited with B. Kainz, A. Noble, J. Schnabel, B. Khanal, and T. Day.
2022 – 2026
Women's Representative
FAU Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering
Promotion of women in science and engineering; funding decisions; assessor on appointment commissions.
2022 – present
Lab Study Coordinator
IDEA Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Supervision
More than 15 Bachelor's/Master's students, and one junior PhD student
Reviewing for
- MICCAI and associated workshops
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
- Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
06 Contact
IDEA Lab, Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Erlangen, Germany