Team
Experimentelle Kardiovaskuläre Medizin

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

Pia Stroeger
Projekt Managerin

Dr. Susanne Tulke
Graduiertenkoordinatorin

Dr. Julia Verheyen
Wissenschaftskoordinatorin

James O'Reilly, PhD
Scientific Writer

Breanne Cameron (PhD)
Physiologin - Translationale Medizinische Forschung

Dr. Enaam Chleilat
Biologin - Bioinstrumentation, Translationale Medizinische Forschung

Dr. Ramona Emig
Biologin - Mechanobiologie, Bioinstrumentation

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 - Optogenetik, 4D Bildgebung

Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme
Leiterin Optogenetik

Ana Simón Chica, MSc
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin - Mechanobiologie, Optogenetik

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

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. Robin Moss
Computermodellierung
E-Mail: robin.moss@uniklinik-freiburg.de

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.-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. 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. 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