PhD Defence

Wei Wei successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Towards a Liver Tumor Ablation Intervention System: Deep Learning-based Automatic Ultrasound-CT/MRI Registration” on June 5, 2026. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jana Dittmann (University of Magdeburg), Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sylvia Saalfeld (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Gerrit Zöllner (Universitätsmedizin … Read more

On Monday, 15 December, Tonia Mielke successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘From Registration to Evaluation: Towards Efficient Human–Robot Interaction’. The work was carried out at the Research Campus STIMULATE and examines intuitive methods for controlling robotic arms using hand gestures and the support of these interactions through mixed reality. The doctoral colloquium and dissertation … Read more

On 11 December 2025, Oleksii Bashkanov from the Human–Machine Interaction research group at the Research Campus STIMULATE at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg successfully completed his doctoral colloquium. In his dissertation entitled ‘Multimodal Deep Learning for Enhanced Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Grading,’ he focused on the development of AI-supported methods for improved prostate cancer diagnostics. … Read more

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