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A blog thrives (or wanes) based on its authors and contributors. The colleagues and scientists behind the SMART SENSING insights blog are experts in their own fields – not just watching from the sidelines but actively shaping applied research. They offer firsthand insights, share their knowledge, and engage in discussions on innovative, exciting, remarkable state-of-the-art topics within their field.

Meet our bloggers:

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Volker Bruns

Volker is a digital pathology and spatial biology enthusiast with a computer science background. Volker and his team develop commercial image analysis software for digital pathology and offer contract development, as well as image analysis as a service in the life sciences.

Grit Nickel

Grit Nickel

Grit is a content writer at Fraunhofer IIS and a science communication specialist. She has 6+ years of experience in research and holds a PhD in German linguistics.

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Nathalie Falk

Nathalie is a molecular biologist with a PhD in neurobiology and postdoctoral experience in immunology and nephrology. After changing fields, she is currently studying psychology and gaining experience in content creation at Fraunhofer IIS.

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Yvonne Neß

Yvonne is a marketing and business development specialist. In her role as a business developer, she contributed content on digital health topics.

Anna Chiwona

Anna is a working student at Fraunhofer IIS. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in journalism with a focus on innovation and management and has experience in copy writing and social media. She contributes texts with a focus on medical sensing and digital health.

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Michaela Benz

Michaela is the Chief Scientist of Fraunhofer IIS’ Medical Image Analysis group. Her research focuses on computational pathology and biomedical image analysis. She holds a doctorate in the field of physics from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and has been with Fraunhofer since 2007.

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Georg Zweyer

Georg is a Full-Stack Software Engineer in the Mobile Health Lab group at Fraunhofer IIS. He contributes to research and development of medical data management solutions.

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Hannah Merz

Hannah is a Senior Business Development Manager at Fraunhofer IIS. With a background in Integrated Life Sciences, she specializes in strategic marketing for digital health topics.

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Markus Jechow

Markus is an Embedded Software Engineer in the Medical Sensor Systems group at Fraunhofer IIS. He contributes to the development of innovative medical wearables and embedded medical applications.

Christian Weigand

Christian Weigand

Christian is an expert in computer science and digital health, specialized in interoperability of medical devices, DiGA / DTx applications, and hospital information systems. He is head of the Fraunhofer IIS Mobile Health Lab. He has previously served as CTO at the Medical Valley Digital Health Application Center (dmac) for 6 years. Further affiliations include the National Coordination Office for Interoperability @gematik / Interop Council, DGBMT working group mHealth, and the Cybermed expert group at the Alliance for Cybersecurity.

Tobias Sebastian Zech

Tobias Sebastian Zech

Tobias is a Senior Scientist in the Medical Sensor Systems and Medical Data Analysis groups. He holds a PhD in physics and has 8+ years of research experience. At Fraunhofer IIS, he contributes to the development of innovative medical wearables that utilize sophisticated AI algorithms for data analysis and embedded medical applications.

Julia Fröhlich

Matthias Struck

Matthias Struck

Matthias is a digital health expert specializing in medical sensors, data analytics, and communication, with a focus on subject studies and clinical trials. As the head of the Center for Sensor Technology and Digital Medicine, he is fostering a network of digital health enthusiasts and establishing a strong track record in developing innovative, patient-centered healthcare applications.

Dr. Christian Münzenmayer

Christian Münzenmayer

Christian specializes in the research and development of innovative digital healthcare solutions, combining technological expertise with medical know-how. He holds a PhD in computer science with a focus on AI and is head of the Digital Health and Analytics Department at Fraunhofer IIS.

Nadine Lang-Richter

Nadine Lang-Richter

Nadine is a trained physicist specializing in Biophysics. She earned her Dr. rer. nat. from the Biophysics Group in Erlangen, focusing on tumor cell migration in 3D environments. Currently, she leads the Group Medical Data Analysis at Fraunhofer IIS. She and her team specialize in AI-based analysis of multimodal medical data, covering the entire workflow from data acquisition in subject studies and longitudinal analyses to the development of predictive models and customized AI solutions.

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Peer Graulich

Peer is a technology journalism and PR student at Nuremberg Institute of Technology. With a focus on digital healthcare topics, he contributed as a working student at Fraunhofer IIS.

Sabine Stigler

Sabine Stigler

Sabine is a Senior Business Development Manager at Fraunhofer IIS and has over 20 years of experience in audience-appropriate marketing communication. Her guiding principle is, "The customer is king.". The field of Affective Computing is her passion.

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Yvette Kunze

Yvette is working as a marketing and communications manager at Fraunhofer IIS. When she's not providing technical administration for the blog and keeping things running, she likes to spend her free time working in the garden to support biodiversity.

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Dominik Seuss

Dr. Dominik Seuß completed his studies in Applied Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. As the head of the "Facial Analysis Solutions" group, he is responsible for the development of SHORE and highly efficient AI algorithms for facial detection and analysis. He strives to deliver tailored detection solutions that meet the individual needs of his customers while covering the entire development pipeline, encompassing the creation of training data material, algorithmics, and deployment.

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Georg Wieland

Georg Wieland is a software engineer in the Mobile Health Lab and Medical Image Analysis group at Fraunhofer IIS. He contributes to the development of medical data management solutions and commercial image analysis software for digital pathology.

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