Team

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel
Head of Department
Email: stefanie.speidel(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5413
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.136
Research topics:
Navigation System
Simulation & Data Generation
Surgical Training
Surgical Robotics
Surgical Workflow Analysis & Complication Prediction

Ricarda Abdel-Bary
Administration
Email: ricarda.abdel-bary(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.137

Dr.-Ing. Zhaoyu Chen
Scientific Management
E-Mail: zhaoyu.chen(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 / 458 17233
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.137

Dr. Sebastian Bodenstedt
Scientist,
Deputy Head of Department,
Group Leader of Data-driven Surgical Analytics and Robotics
Email: sebastian.bodenstedt(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5598
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138
Research Topics:
Surgical Data Sciene
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Surgical Scene Recognition
Robot-assisted Surgery

Dr. Micha Pfeiffer
Scientist,
Group Leader of CAN/Computer-assisted Navigation
Email: micha.pfeiffer(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Non-Rigid Registration of Organs using Machine Learning
Simulation&Data Generation for Computer Assisted Interventions
Laparoscopic Computer Assisted Navigation

Dr. med. Fiona Kolbinger
Clinician Scientist in Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Email: Fiona.Kolbinger(at)uniklinikum-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 19624
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.0G
Research Topics:
Surgical Data Science
Robot-assisted Surgery
Surgical Decision Support
Surgical Oncology
Clinical Translation

Maxime Fleury
Scientific Software Development
Email: m.fleury(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H136, 3. OG

Gregor Just
Scientific Software Development
Email: gregor.just(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H136, 3. OG

Nithya Bhasker
PhD Student
Email: nithya.bhasker(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Surgical complication prediction
Survival analysis
Medical image analysis
Geometric Deep Learning

Reuben Docea
PhD Student
Email: reuben.docea(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone:+49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Image Guidance Systems for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
Geometric Deep Learning for Tissue Tracking & Deformation Prediction
Medical Image Analysis

Isabel Funke
PhD Student
Email: isabel.funke(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5597
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.130
Research Topics:
Surgical Video Analysis

Peng Liu
PhD Student
Email: peng.liu(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5597
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.130
Research Topics:
Medical Image Registration for Middle Ear Diagnostics
Navigation System for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery

Alexander Jenke
PhD Student
Email: alexander.jenke(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5528
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138
Research Topics:
Active Learning (SurgOmics)
Surgical Scene Understanding
Segmentation

Stefanie Krell
PhD Student
Email: stefanie.krell(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5528
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138
Research Topics:
Semi-supervised-learning
Segmentation
Phase recognition

Bianca Güttner
PhD Student
Email: bianca.guettner@nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H 136/ 3.OG
Research Topics:
Soft Tissue Simulation
Training Data Generation
Integration of Model-driven and Data-driven approaches

Ariel Antonio Rodriguez Jimenez
PhD Student
Email: ariel.rodriguezjimenez(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.OG
Research Topics:
Digital twin for assisted robotics tele-surgery

Johannes Bender
PhD Student
Email: johannes.bender(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Navigation in Laparascopic Prostatectomy
2D-3D-Registration
Online Adaptation and Labeling

Hanna Hoffmann
PhD Student
Email: hanna.moellhoff(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Surgical Skill Assessment
Surgical/Medical Training

Kevin Wang
PhD Student
Email: kevin.wang(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.OG
Research Topics:
Computer-Vision-based Force Estimation

Max Kirchner
PhD Student
Email: max.kirchner(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/ 3.OG
Research Topics:
Federated Learning, and Swarm Learning
Cloud Computing
Point Cloud Completion for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery

Danush Kumar Venkatesh
PhD Student
Email: danushkumar.venkatesh(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Synthetic data generation
Generative modeling

Jinjing Xu
PhD Student
Email: jinjing.xu(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
Surgical System Navigation
Image Registration

Susu Hu
PhD Student
Email: susu.hu(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
GeoSOP: Geometry for surgical outcome prediction

Martin Lelis
PhD Student
Email: martin.lelis(at)ukdd.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:

Gregor Just
PhD Student
Email: gregor.just(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:

Claas de Boer
PhD Student
Email: claas.deboer(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:

Lorenzo Mazza
PhD Student
Email: lorenzo.mazza@nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:

Chenyang Li
PhD Student
Email: chenyang.li@nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG
Research Topics:
- Saskia Puschner
- Daniel Cser
- Wei Ling
- Yujia Hu
- Bonggeun Jeon
- Kiranraj Muthuraj
- Liwen Liu
- Syed Alisamar Husain
- Ghana Prashanth Ramachandran
- Haridhra Suresh
- Johann Süß
- Peter Klausing
- Stefan Leger
- Michael Reiche
- Georges Hattab
- Michael Breucha