Prof. Dr. Sandy Engelhardt

Medical Image Processing, Computer-assisted Surgery, Multimodal AI, Generative AI, Federated Learning

Medical/Professional background

November 2016: Graduation Dr.sc.hum. with distinction (summa cum laude)
at the Medical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
November 2012 – November 2016: PhD Student at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ),
Division for Medical and Biological Informatics
August 2012: Master of Science (M.Sc.) with distinction

December 2019 – May 2025: Head of Working Group “Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine” (AICM), University Hospital Heidelberg
April 2018 – December 2019: Head of Research Group “Heart” at Research Campus STIMULATE, Magdeburg, Germany
April 2018 – November 2019: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at University of Applied Science, Mannheim
October 2017 – March 2018: Visiting Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Working Group “Computer-assisted Surgery“ and Working Group “Visualization“, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
July 2017 – September 2017: Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
November 2016 – June 2017: Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Division of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
November 2012 – June 2017: Member of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 125
Cognition Guided Surgery, Project B01:
Knowledge-based Assistance System for Reconstructive Valve Surgery

October 2018: 3^rd Place EACTS Techno-College Innovation Award by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), Milan, Italy
April 2018: Runner-up conhIT Young Academics Award for Simon Sauerzapf’s Bachelorthesis, Berlin, Germany (Supervision) (1.000 €)
September 2017: Winner MICCAI Challenge Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC) – 1^st place Subchallenge Segmentation of multiple cardiac structures with Deep Learning, 2^nd place Subchallenge Classification, MICCAI-STACOM, Quebec, Canada
March 2017: BVM-Award 2017 for the best dissertation in the field of Medical Image Processing at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Heidelberg, Germany (500 €)
March 2016: Runner-up Best Paper Award at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Berlin, Germany (Second Author) (300€)
October 2015: Runner-up EACTS Techno-College Innovation Award by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 2015: Runner-up conhIT Young Academics Award for Silvio Kolb's Bachelor thesis, Berlin, Germany (Supervision) (500€)
September 2014: Best Paper Award at MICCAI -Workshop Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI), Boston, USA ($300)
March 2014: Best presentation award at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Aachen, Germany (300 €)