Danny Schott successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Of Individual and Collaborative Experiences: Training and Learning in Immersive Environments for Medical Education,” with the distinction summa cum laude on April 3, 2025. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Prof. Dr. Daniel Roth (Technical University of Munich, Germany), and Prof. … Read more
Gino Gulamhussene successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “A Deep Learning Framework for Predicted 4D MRI” on 7 October 2024. The thesis committee members were Prof. Dr. Dietrich Paulus (University of Koblenz, Germany), Prof. Dr. Frank Zoellner (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg, Germany). The thesis was supervised by … Read more
Florian Heinrich successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Projective Augmented Reality Techniques for the Navigation of Percutaneous Needle Insertion,” on December 5, 2023. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke (University of Hamburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Marta Kersten-Oertel (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada), and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, Germany). Florian’s research was … Read more
Julian Alpers successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Improving Thermal Cancer Treatment with 2D to 3D Heat Map Reconstruction” on September 22, 2023. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Bruno Madore (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), Prof. Dr. Oliver Speck (University of Magdeburg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg, Germany). … Read more
Vuthea Chheang successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Collaborative Virtual Reality for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Training and Planning” on August 31, 2022. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Nigel John (University of Chester, UK), Prof. Bernhard Jung (University of Technology and Mining in Freiberg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, … Read more
Anneke Meyer successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Exploiting Supplementary Data and Knowledge for Improved CNN-based Segmentation of Prostate Structures in T2-weighted MRI”” on March 30, 2022. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Dorit Mehrhof (RTWH Aachen), Prof. Dr. Andrey Federov (Harvard Medical School, Boston) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). … Read more
Fabian Joeres successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy” on December 13, 2021. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumor Diseases, Dresden), Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth (University of Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Fabian conducted his research in … Read more
Benjamin Hatscher successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Touchless, Direct Input Methods for Human-Computer Interaction to Support Image-Guided Interventions” on August 28, 2020. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Raimund Dachselt (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka (University of Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Benjamin conducted his research … Read more
André Mewes successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Projector-based Augmented Reality and Touchless Interaction to Support MRI-Guided Interventions” on November 21, 2019. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber (University of Bern) and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). André conducted his research in … Read more
Marko Rak, researcher at the research campus STIMULATE and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke University, successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Image Analysis in Public Health Studies – Fast Methods for Spine and Aorta Analysis in MRI”. Congratulations Marko! The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Tönnies at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.
