Hoehme Lab • Research group
Systems medicine • AI-based image analysis • Multiscale 3D liver models
Group members

Stefan Hoehme (Dr.rer.nat.)
Head of research group

SH

Main focus of research
  • Image / Volume processing and analysis
  • Visualisation
  • Multiscale liver models
Working experience
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science (MPI CBS)
  • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MIS)
  • Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE)
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI)
Awards & Grants
  • Reinhard Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award 2011 (1st prize)
    by the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB)
    for best annual thesis from any area of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
  • Grant: DFG Emmy-Noether-Programme (2015-2021)
  • Grant: BMBF LiSyM (Liver Systems Medicine) (2015-2021)
  • Grant: BMBF LiSyM-Cancer (2021-2024)
  • Grant: ScaDS.AI Seed Funding (2023-2024)
  • Grant: EU ARTEMIS (2024-2027)
  • Grant: DFG CHOLANG (2024-2027)
  • Grant: BMBF LiSyM-Cancer 2 (2024-2027)
  • Grant: Deutsche Krebshilfe (TBS)

Adrian Friebel (Dipl.inf.)
Senior PhD student
AF

Main focus of research
  • Image / Volume processing and analysis
  • Visualisation
  • Machine learning for image processing
Working experience
  • Institute for Process Control and Robotics (IPR) @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI)

Deng Zhipeng (M.Sc.Inf.)
PhD student
AF

Main focus of research
  • Medical image processing and analysis
  • Deep learning
  • Computational modeling and simulation
Working experience
  • Engineering Perception Group @ Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart)
  • Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering @ Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)
  • Medical Theoretical Center (MTZ) @ University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (UKDD)

Qasim Siddiqui (M.Sc.Inf.)
PhD student
AF

Main focus of research
  • Image analysis
  • Deep learning for image processing
  • Uncertainty quantification in deep learning
Working experience
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

Marlene Mertens (M.Sc.Inf.)
PhD student
AF

Main focus of research
  • Medical image processing and analysis
  • Deep learning
Working experience
  • ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Leipzig


External & Collaborations

Sabrina Schmidt (M.Sc.)
PhD student
Dijkstra-Silva group TU Dresden


JN

Main focus of research
  • Firm behavior in sustainability transitions
  • Diffusion of sustainable organizational characteristics and innovations
  • Agent-based modeling
Working experience
  • Junior Professorship for Sustainability Assessment and Policy at TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Berlin

Sabine Vater (B.Sc.)
Master student
Fraunhofer Leipzig


JN

Main focus of research
  • AI-based analysis of MRI images for brain tumor bearing rodents
Working experience
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology Leipzig (IZI)


Alumni

Florian Vogel (B.Sc.)
Master student
FV

Main focus of research
  • Machine-learning image processing and analysis methods
Working experience
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology (University Of Applied Sciences Jena)
  • Experience in image processing, hardware/µc programming, biosignal processing

Johannes Neitsch (Dipl.math.)
PhD student


JN

Main focus of research
  • Agent-based Modeling
  • Physical Modeling of Cells, Flux and Diffusion in Tissue
  • Adhesion; Proliferation; Micro Pipettes; Optical Stretcher
  • Mass - Spring - Systems
Working experience
  • Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
  • Max Planck Institute of colloids and interfaces (MPIKG)
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI)

Marek Kozoň (B.Sc.)
Master student
MK

Main focus of research
  • Machine-learning image processing and analysis methods
  • Analysis and modeling of biological tissues
Working experience
  • Bachelor study of General Physics at Charles University in Prague
  • Master study of Theoretical Physics at Charles University in Prague
  • Erasmus Study at Institute of Theoretical Physics of University Leipzig

Claus Stöpel
(Dipl.biochem. Dipl.ing.)

PhD student
CS

Main focus of research
  • Software engineering / Architecture
  • Image / Volume processing and analysis
Working experience
  • Molecular oncology, Gynecological department - University Hospital Leipzig
  • MAGE-Group (Model of the Ageing Epigenome), Data-Visualization and analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Methods (i.e. Chip-seq), software development, Bioinformatics University of Leipzig
  • Detection and Classifying of Prostate Cancer by Geometric Measurements, image-processing and analysis of prostate carcinoma microscopic images, development of algorithms, IZBI, University of Leipzig

Tim Johann (Dipl.phys.)
PhD student


TJ

Main focus of research
  • Software engineering / Architecture
Working experience
  • Modelling of Biological Processes Group, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg
  • EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg (now HITS)
  • Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (Institute for Astronomical Computations), Heidelberg
  • Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, University of Heidelberg
  • Schrodinger Inc., Anterio Research, Mannheim

Daniel Hahne (Dr.rer.nat.)
PostDoc
DH

Main focus of research
  • Image / Volume processing and analysis
  • Visualisation
  • Intracellular liver models
Working experience
  • Institute of Physics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • COMPASS Experiment (CERN)

Kasimir Wansing (M.Sc.inf.)
PhD student
KW

Main focus of research
  • Agent-based modeling
  • Visualisation
Working experience
  • Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Leipzig
  • Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig:
    Master thesis "Iterated Adaptive Importance Sampling on Constituent Trees"