Team
Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine

Stefanie Wachsmann
Controlling

Dr. Julia Verheyen
Scientific Manager

Dr. Susanne Tulke
Graduate Coordinator

James O'Reilly, PhD
Scientific Writer

Breanne Cameron, PhD
Post-doc - Translational Research

Dr. Enaam Chleilat
Post-doc - Bioinstrumentation, Translational Research

Felix Flath, MSc
Scientific Assistant - Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging

Dr. Francesco Giardini
Post-doc - Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging

Dr. med. Simon Jacobi
Clinician Scientist - Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging

Dr. med. Hannah Kappler
Clinician Scientist - 4D Imaging / Cardiac NanoDynamics

Dr. med. Alexander Klesen
Clinician Scientist - Optogenetics

Thomas Kok, MSc
Scientific Assistant - Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging

Dr. Josef Madl
Microscopy Manager for Confocal and MultiPhoton Imaging Platform
Senior Scientist - 4D Imaging
E-Mail: josef.madl@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Remi Peyronnet, PhD
Head of Mechanobiology

Prof. Ursula Ravens
Senior Professor - Mechanobiology

Dr. Catarina Reis Orcinha
Lab Manager

Eva Rog-Zielinska, PhD
Head of 4D Imaging

Leonardo Sacconi, PhD
Senior Scientist - Bioinstrumentation, Optogenetics, 4D Imaging

Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme
Head of Optogenetics

Callum Zgierski-Johnston, PhD
Head of Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging – Interim Head of Computational Modelling

Jonas Heer
Technician
E-Mail: jonas.heer@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Pia Iaconianni
Technician

Manuel Koch
Technician

Stefanie Perez-Feliz
Technician

Trudbert Rieder
IT Administration
E-Mail: trudbert.rieder@uniklinik-freiburg.de // IT requests to iekm.itsupport-ticket@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Cinthia Walz
Technician

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Marbely del Carmen Calderón-Fernández
Optogenetics, Bioinstrumentation

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Anthony Coté
Mechanobiology

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Marine Devaux
Mechanobiology

Dr. sc. hum. cand. Jiaying (April) Fu
Mechanobiology, 4D Imaging
E-Mail: jiaying.fu@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Dr.-Ing. cand. Joachim Greiner
4D Imaging


Dr. med. cand. Hanna Hemeling
Mechanobiology

Dr. med. cand. Adrian-Yarema Holota
Mechanobiology

Dr. med. cand. Wesley Dean Jones
4D Imaging

Dr. med. cand. Wenzel Kaltenbacher
4D Imaging

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Andries Leemisa
Optogenetics

Dr. med. cand. Minou Neidlein
Mechanobiology

Dr.-Ing. cand. Sophia Ohnemus
Computational Modelling, Optogenetics

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Sofía Orós Rodrigo
4D Imaging

Dr. med. cand. Jan Rebers
Optogenetics
E-Mail: jan.rebers@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Teresa Schiatti
Mechanobiology

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Stephanie Schmid
4D Imaging

Dr.-Ing. cand. Collin Snitchler
Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging

Dr.-Ing. cand. Eike Wülfers
Computational Modelling

Tomas Brennan

Dr. Rebecca-Ann Burton
Associate Professor in Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Dr. Rebecca-Ann Burton did her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Biology (first class with distinction) and obtained an MSc in Pharmacology and Biotechnology from Sheffield Hallam University (2003). She then joined the Oxford Cardiac Mechano-Electric Feedback Group of Prof. Peter Kohl as a Lab Manager and Research Assistant. Remaining with the same team, she was awarded one of the coveted Oxford Overseas Research Scholarships to support her studies towards a DPhil in Cardiac Physiology (2010). In parallel, she completed an MBA, with Merit (2008). Her graduate research was focused on developing high-resolution, histo-anatomically detailed reconstructions of whole mammalian hearts, to support individualised structure-function modelling. Dr. Burton and Prof. Kohl have continued to collaborate and have published extensively in peer review journals.

Dr. rer. nat. Elisa Darkow

Dr. rer. nat. Ramona Emig

Dr. Alan Garny
Senior Software Developer in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland.
Dr. Alan Garny is a Senior Software Developer in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. He did his DPhil with Prof. Peter Kohl at the University of Oxford, developing computer models of the origin and spread of cardiac excitation. Part of this work involved the development of COR, the first publicly available CellML-based environment. He is now the project manager and lead developer of OpenCOR, another CellML-based environment that relies on COMBINE standards (incl. CellML and SED-ML) to enable reproducible science.

Luis Hortells, PhD

Paulina Kaas, BSc

Dr. rer. nat. Siri Leemann

Dr.-Ing. Robin Moss

Dr. Simone Nübling

Dr. Alex Quinn
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics & The School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University.
Dr. Alex Quinn did his postdoctoral training at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London with Prof. Peter Kohl from Oct 2008 - March 2013, investigating mechanisms of mechanically-induced arrhythmias and physiologic and ischaemia-related electrophysiological variability. The focus of his lab is on the intrinsic regulation of cardiac function and the effects of mechano-electric interactions on heart rhythm. His team continues to work in collaboration with the IEKM on various projects, most recently: (i) using cell-specific expression of a genetically-encoded voltage-sensitive fluorescent protein in mice to demonstrate electrical coupling between myocytes and non-myocytes in situ (PNAS, 2016); (ii) demonstrating the use of a genetically-expressed light-activated chloride channel in zebrafish to pace or silence the heart in vivo (Front Physiol, 2018); and (iii) comparing the structural, mechanical, and electrophysiological determinants of the chronotropic response to sinoatrial node stretch in rabbit and mouse (Front Physiol, 2020).

Dr.-Ing. Gunnar Seemann

Ana Simón Chica, PhD

Frédéric Sonak, BSc

Gregor Stief, MSc

Pia Stroeger

Dr. Viviane Timmermann

Gavin Tumlinson

Vanessa Zeidler, MSc