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
Physiologist - Translational Research
Dr. Enaam Chleilat
Biologist - Bioinstrumentation, Translational Research
Dr. Francesco Giardini
Post-doctoral researcher - Bioinstrumentation / Experimental Imaging
Simon Jacobi
Physician Scientist - Bioinstrumentation
Dr. med. Hannah Kappler
Physician Scientist - 4D Imaging
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
Eva Rog-Zielinska, PhD
Head of 4D Imaging
Leonardo Sacconi, PhD
Senior Scientist - Bioinstrumentation, Optogenetics, 4D Imaging
Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme
Head of Optogenetics
Ana Simón Chica, MSc
Scientific Assistant - Mechanobiology, 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
Kristina Kollmar
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. 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. Wesley Dean Jones
4D Imaging
Dr. med. cand. Wenzel Kaltenbacher
4D Imaging
Dr.-Ing. cand. Sophia Ohnemus
Computational Modelling, Optogenetics
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Sofía Orós Rodrigo
4D Imaging
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
Gregor Stief, MSc cand.
4D Imaging
Gavin Tumlinson
Translational Research
Vanessa Zeidler, MSc cand.
4D Imaging
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.-Ing. Robin Moss
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
Frédéric Sonak, BSc
Pia Stroeger
Dr. Viviane Timmermann