Team
Experimentelle Kardiovaskuläre Medizin
Pia Stroeger
Projekt Managerin
Stefanie Wachsmann
Controlling
Dr. Julia Verheyen
Wissenschaftskoordinatorin
Dr. Susanne Tulke
Graduiertenkoordinatorin
James O'Reilly, PhD
Scientific Writer
Breanne Cameron, PhD
Physiologin - Translationale Medizinische Forschung
Dr. Enaam Chleilat
Biologin - Bioinstrumentation, Translationale Medizinische Forschung
Dr. Francesco Giardini
Post-doc - Bioinstrumentation / Experimentelle Bildgebung
PD Dr. med. Ingo Hilgendorf
Koordinator für Translationale Medizinische Forschung
Simon Jacobi
Physician Scientist - Bioinstrumentation
Dr. med. Hannah Kappler
Physician Scientist - 4D Bildgebung
Dr. med. Alexander Klesen
Clinician Scientist - Optogenetik
Thomas Kok, MSc
Scientific Assistant - Bioinstrumentation / Experimentelle Bildgebung
E-Mail: thomas.kok@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Dr. Josef Madl
Leiter der Plattform für Konfokal- und MultiPhotonen-Mikroskopie
Senior Scientist - 4D Bildgebung
E-Mail: josef.madl@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Remi Peyronnet, PhD
Leiter Mechanobiologie
Prof. Ursula Ravens
Senior Professorin - Mechanobiologie
Eva Rog-Zielinska, PhD
Leiterin 4D Bildgebung
Leonardo Sacconi, PhD
Senior Scientist – Bioinstrumentation, Optogenetik, 4D Bildgebung
Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme
Leiterin Optogenetik
Ana Simón Chica, MSc
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin - Mechanobiologie, Optogenetik
Gregor Stief
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft - 4D Imaging
Dr. Viviane Timmermann
Leiterin Computermodellierung
Callum Zgierski-Johnston, PhD
Leiter Bioinstrumentation
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 - Cardiac Computational Biophysics
E-Mail: trudbert.rieder@uniklinik-freiburg.de // IT requests to iekm.itsupport-ticket@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Cinthia Walz
Technician
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Tomas Brennan
Optogenetik
E-Mail: tomas.agustin.brennan@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Personal Page
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Marbely del Carmen Calderón-Fernández
Optogenetik, Bioinstrumentation
Dr. sc. hum. cand. Jiaying (April) Fu
Mechanobiologie, 4D Bildgebung
E-Mail: jiaying.fu@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Dr. Ing. cand. Joachim Greiner
4D Bildgebung, Computermodellierung
Dr. sc. hum. cand. Bo Han
Bioinstrumentation / Experimentelle Bildgebung
E-Mail: bo.han@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Dr. med. cand. Wenzel Kaltenbacher
4D Bildgebung
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Andries Leemisa
Optogenetik
E-Mail: andries.leemisa@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Personal Page
Dr. Ing. cand. Sophia Ohnemus
Computermodellierung
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Sofía Orós Rodrigo
4D Bildgebung
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Teresa Schiatti
Mechanobiologie
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Stephanie Schmid
4D Bildgebung
Dr. rer. nat. cand. Collin Snitchler
Bioinstrumentation / Experimentelle Bildgebung
Dr.-Ing. cand. Eike Wülfers
Computermodellierung
Wesley Dean Jones, MSc cand.
4D Bildgebung
Sophie Pilgrim, MSc cand.
Optogenetik, 4D Bildgebung
Frédéric Sonak, BSc cand.
4D Bildgebung
Gavin Tumlinson
Translationale Medizinische Forschung
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
Biologin - Mechanobiologie, Bioinstrumentation
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