Principal Investigator of the Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC) and the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
 

Principal Investigator (PI) of sub-project 7 (Imaging) within ASCONET/COSYCONET

Head of the Section Pulmonary Radiology and Head of the Division Imaging in the Department of Internal Medicine (as part of the Department Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg)

Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty Kiel

Vice Director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology in Kiel

Associate Professor of the Medical Faculty in Kiel

Head of the radiology section of the 1st Medical Hospital of University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel

Project Manager DIRO-Lung as part of the strategic alliance between DKFZ and Siemens Medical Solutions

Head of the Emmy-Schmidt-Group „Image guided individual therapy of chest disease“ at the DKFZ, Heidelberg

Fellowship in the Department of Radiology at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) of the Helmholtz-Society (Heidelberg)

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Board certification in „Diagnostic Radiology”

United States Medical License Examinations

German Full License to Practice Medicine

Residency and Fellowship at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University Hospital Kiel

Neurosurgery at Paracelsus-Klinik Osnabrück

Thesis: ”Differenzierung der elektrophysiologischen Merkmale cerebellärer Körnerzellen in der Ontogenese: Patch-Clamp-Untersuchungen an Primärkulturen aus Hühnerembryonen” (grade: ”magna cum laude”)

Medical School of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel

Felix-Wankel-Tierschutz-Award 2007 of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Four congress poster prizes awarded to the supervised groups

Inventors Award of the German Radiologic Society for „Artificial Chest for Diagnostic Radiology“

Scholarship of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

advanced imaging strategies for thoracic diseases with multi-slice detector CT and magnetic resonance imaging for diagnostics and motion-adapted radiotherapy

establishment of Lung MRI in clinical practice

experimental ex-vivo systems for thoracic imaging based on ventilated and perfused porcine lung explants inside a dedicated MR-compatible chest Phantom

1. ASCONET/COSYCONET: Sub-Project 7 (Imaging) ► http://www.asconet.net/html/ueberuns?clps65_1222959047=1

2. MRI of the lung at 1.5 and 3 Tesla: Development and clinical implementation of protocols (in collaboration with German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, University of Würzburg, University of Mannheim, National Jewish Health in Denver, Co. and Siemens Medical Sytems)

3. Non-contrast enhanced and contrast enhanced functional MRI of the lung

4. 4D-CT, 4D-PET-CT and dynamic MRI of respiratory mechanics

German patent No. 101 21 159.7. Künstlicher Thorax.