Team
Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine

Maria Jost
Controlling
E-Mail: maria.jost@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Pia Stroeger
Project Manager

Dr. Susanne Tulke
Graduate Coordinator (on maternity leave)

Dr. Julia Verheyen
Scientific Manager

James O'Reilly, PhD
Scientific Writer

Breanne Cameron (PhD)
Physiologist - Translational Research

Dr. Enaam Chleilat
Biologist - Bioinstrumentation, Translational Research

Dr. med. Hannah Fürniss
Physician Scientist - 4D Imaging

PD Dr. med. Ingo Hilgendorf
Coordinator for Translational Research

Luis Hortells, PhD
Veterinarian/Biologist - Translational Research

Yung-Lin Huang, PhD
Engineer - Computational Modelling

Simon Jacobi
Physician Scientist - Bioinstrumentation

Dr. med. Alexander Klesen
Clinician Scientist - Optogenetics

Thomas Kok, MSc
Scientific Assistant - 4D 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 Cell Biophysics

Teo Puig Walz, MSc
IT Coordinator, Scientific Assistant - Bioinstrumentation, Computational Modelling

Prof. Ursula Ravens
Senior Professor - Cell Biophysics

Eva Rog-Zielinska, PhD
Head of 4D Imaging

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

Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme
Head of Optogenetics

Dr.-Ing. Gunnar Seemann
Senior Scientist - Computational Modelling

Ana Simón Chica, MSc
Scientific Assistant - Cell Biophysics, Optogenetics

Dr. Viviane Timmermann
Head of Computational Modelling

Callum Zgierski-Johnston, PhD
Head of Bioinstrumentation

Pia Iaconianni
Technician

Kristina Kollmar
Technician

Stefanie Koßmann
Technician intern

Stefanie Perez-Feliz
Technician

Kim Pusch
Technician intern
E-Mail: kim.pusch@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Cinthia Walz
Technician

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Tomas Brennan
Optogenetics
E-Mail: tomas.agustin.brennan@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Personal Page

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

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Elisa Darkow
Cell Biophysics

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Ramona Emig
Cell Biophysics, Bioinstrumentation

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

Dr. Ing. cand. Joachim Greiner
4D Imaging, Computational Modelling


Dr. med. cand. Wenzel Kaltenbacher
4D Imaging

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Andries Leemisa
Optogenetics
E-Mail: andries.leemisa@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Personal Page

Dr.-Ing. cand. Robin Moss
Computational Modelling
E-Mail: robin.moss@uniklinik-freiburg.de

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

Dr. rer. nat. cand. Teresa Schiatti
Cell Biophysics

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

Dr.-Ing. cand. Tobias Schuler
Bioinstrumentation

Dr.-Ing. cand. Eike Wülfers
Computational Modelling

Dr. sc. hum. cand. Kaiyue (Norah) Xin
Translational Research
E-Mail: kaiyue.xin@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Jonas Heer, BSc cand.
Optogenetics
E-Mail: jonas.heer@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Wesley Dean Jones, MSc cand.
4D Imaging

Manuel Koch, MSc cand.
Cell Biophysics

Sophia Ohnemus
Computational Modelling

Sophie Pilgrim, MSc cand.
Optogenetics, 4D Imaging

Eliza Sassu, BSc cand.
Translational Research

Frédéric Sonak, BSc cand.
4D Imaging

Gavin Tumlinson
Translational Research

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. 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.

Paulina Kaas, BSc

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).