Team

Tamadur AlBaraghtheh , M.Eng.

Imaging and Data Science

Tamadur Adnan Albaraghtheh is a CFD scientist from Jordan. She is involved in the research project "Uncertainty Quantification", where she investigates the sources of uncertainties within the degradation models and quantify them to enhance the reliability of the model. Tamadur works at the outstation of the Hereon on the DESY campus in Hamburg.

Phone: + 49 (0)40 8998 6909

Dr. Stefan Bruns

Imaging and Data Science

Dr. Stefan Bruns research focuses on the characterization of the physical properties of porous media via 3D and 4D imaging. Since October 2019, Dr. Bruns works at the DESY outstation of Hereon on the DESY campus in Hamburg where he contributes to the SynchroLoad project.

Phone: + 49 (0)40 8998 6908

Birte Hindenlang , M.Sc.

Imaging and Data Science

Birte Hindenlang is a material scientist and works as a Ph.D. student at the Hereon outstation at DESY. Here, she investigates the degradation behavior of Mg-Implants under load. During her master thesis she investigated the evaporation behavior of water from t-ZnO networks.

Kamila Iskhakova , M.Sc.

Imaging and Data Science

Kamila is a physicist, holding a master's degree in radiophysics. Her master thesis is dedicated to the study of synthetic hydroxyapatite powders designed for bone implantation by magnetic resonance. As a part of MgSafe project, she investigates newly formed bone ultrastructure and how it is affected by biodegradable Mg implant corrosion at the Hereon outstation on the DESY campus in Hamburg.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 5321

Katharina Lammers

Imaging and Data Science

Katharina Lammers is a biology laboratory assistant and bachelor student at the University of Hamburg. As part of her project study and bachelor thesis, she analyzes the degradation behavior of PEO/nanoparticle coated Mg implants and their cell compatibility.

Dr. Christian Lucas

Imaging and Data Science

Christian Lucas is a computer scientist working at the Hereon outstation at DESY in Hamburg. Since June 2020 he contributes to the project "Multi-task Deep Learning for Large Scale Multimodal Biomedical Image Analysis (MDLMA)" and combines methods for the complementary machine learning of various image analysis tasks on multi-modal image data.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 6916

Jalil Nourisa , PhD

Imaging and Data Science

Jalil Nourisa received his BEng and MEng degrees in the field of biomedical engineering and wrote his research thesis in the area of numerical simulation in orthopedic biomechanics. He joined Hereon in May 2019 with the research topic of “Computer simulation of bone growth and remodeling: An application for Mg-based implants". His workplace is at the DESY campus in Hamburg.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998-532

Jan Reimers , M.Sc.

Imaging and Data Science

Jan Reimers is a materials scientist and works as a PhD student at the Hereon outstation at DESY and the Ernst Ruska-Centre in Jülich on the joint project "Model and Data Driven Material Characterization" (MDMC). Using correlation of computed tomography and electron microscopy, he is investigating the degradation behaviour of magnesium alloys under physiological conditions at the nanoscale.

Sandra Sefa

Imaging and Data Science

Sandra Sefa is a medical physicist and works as a doctoral researcher at the Hereon outstation in DESY. Her task is to investigate the effect of Mg-10Gd on bone microarchitecture in order to gain understanding on how Mg degradation might affect transport and communication in bone.

Hanna Slominska

Imaging and Data Science

Hanna Slominska is a material scientist from Poland. She is involved in a research project MgSafe, where she investigates the correlation between material properties, degradation and bone-to-implant contact in biodegradable magnesium-based alloy. Her workplace is the DESY campus in Hamburg.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 5321

Dr. Florian Wieland

Imaging and Data Science

Florian Wieland works at the Hereon outstation on the DESY campus in Hamburg. His research interests are: biomineralisation, surfaces & interfaces (adsorption process, Langmuir layers, growth phenomena), nanoparticles, metal organic frameworks, research on proteins & polymers under shear and pressure conditions, x-ray reflectivity, grazing incidence diffraction & grazing incidence small angle scattering.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998-6916

Dr. Berit Zeller-Plumhoff

Imaging and Data Science

Berit Zeller-Plumhoff holds a master in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Bioengineering. As a PhD student she was focussing on tomographic imaging and image-based modelling of soft tissues. Since September 2016, she leads the project 'MgBone - Multimodal imaging for structural analysis of bone modeling induced by degraded magnesium implants' and works at the Hereon outstation DESY in Hamburg. Berit studies the impact of biodegradable implants on the crystallisation and crystal orientation of newly formed bone.

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998-6904