About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and interested in anything related to complex systems and control, at the intersection of nature, health, and engineering.

My current projects include:

• Learning-enhanced control of soft, bioinspired robots
• Control of population dynamics represented by hyperbolic partial differential equations.
• Multi-sensor tissue differentiation for tumor detection.
• Material Fingerprinting.

Educational and academic milestones

Year	University	Position
Since 2025	Stanford University	Postdoc in Soft Robotics
2023–2025	University of Stuttgart	Postdoc in Control Theory and Research Group Leader in Biomedical Engineering
2024	UC San Diego	Visiting Researcher with Miroslav Krstić (GoogleScholar)
2020–2023	University of Stuttgart	Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Biomedical Engineering
2022	The University of Tokyo	Visiting Researcher with Masayuki Fujita
2018–2020	University of Stuttgart	M.Sc. in Engineering Cybernetics
2017-2018	Bosch	1 Year Internship in Automotive Software Development
2014–2017	University of Stuttgart	B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering

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Academic service

• since 07/2025: Associate Editor with IFAC Mechatronics.
• since 01/2025: Chair of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Germany Chapter (👉more).
• since 01/2025: Communications Co-Chair of IEEE NextCom by the Control System Society (👉more).
• 2025: Observer in the assessment centers of the Femtec network.
• since 2023: Active member of IEEE, IEEE CSS (Control System Society), IEEE EMBS (Engineering Medicine and Biology), IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering).

Recognitions

• (Outlook) 2026-2028: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation to fund two years of research at Stanford University with Prof. Ellen Kuhl (👉more).
• 2025: Best Regional Professional Chapter Award for the IEEE EMBS Germany Chapter, where I am the chair.
• 2024: Nomination for the Bertha-Benz Price: Candidate of the University of Stuttgart for an outstanding dissertation in engineering.
• 2023: Featured Article in IEEE’s Transactions on Biomedical Engineering highlights.
• 2014-2017: Full scholarship provided by Förderfonds Medizintechnik (financial aid and mentoring for the most promising students in the medical engineering study program).

Involvement in conferences

• (Outlook) 2025: Presenting in invited session on Estimation and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems at the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
• 2025: Programm Committee ISMT 2026 (3rd International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies).
• 2025: Session chair at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC) for Prosthetics and Exoskeletons design and Cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
• 2025: Presenting in invited session on Estimation and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems at the American Control Conference (ACC) (👉more).

Invited talks

• 2024: Population Dynamics - How to model and control interaction-related phenomena. University Medical Center Göttingen.
• 2024: Plenary speaker at the Female Leadership Development Panel at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society.
• 2024: Intraoperative Multi-Sensor Tissue Differentiation in Oncology. Technical University Berlin, Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering.
• 2023: Impedance-Based Tumor Differentiation in the Urinary Bladder. IEEE EMBS Germany Chapter – EMBC 2023 Recap.

Reviews

• 2025: ACS In Focus series.
• 2025: American Control Conference (ACC).
• 2024: Springer Nature Scientific Reports.
• 2024: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.

Teaching and mentoring

• PhD Co-Supervision (2023-2026) at University of Stuttgart:
  • F. Krauß: Navigation and localization of multi-modal sensors in the bladder.
  • M. Ege: Data-driven and model-based fusion of multi-modal sensors for tissue differentiation.
  • Z. Lovasz: Electrical impedance-based tissue characterization for tumor detection and margin estimation.
• Lecturer: Simulation methods for dynamic systems, winter term 2024/2025.
• Teaching assistant: Distributed parameter systems, summer term 2023.
• Teaching assistant: Fundamentals of system dynamics in medical engineering, winter terms 2020-2023.
• Teaching assistant: Project seminar “Inverse pendulum”, 2020-2023.
• Thesis supervision:
  • Master thesis (M.Sc. Engineering Cybernetics): Feedforward Control Design for Competing Population Systems with Two Species, 04/2025.
  • Master thesis (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Detection of bleeding based on electrical measurement data and adaptation of an APC mode for optimized treatment, 04/2024.
  • Master thesis (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Assessing the effects of a hand exoskeleton in stroke patients: development of a method combining EMG, kinematics and device data, 04/2023, in collaboration with emovo care and the BioRob Lab at EPFL.
  • Student research project (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Characterization of contact force and tremor in manual impedance measurements, 09/2022.
  • Student research project (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Patient-based tissue differentiation using electrical impedance spectroscopy, 09/2022.
  • Master thesis (M.Sc. Mechatronics): Finite Element Analysis of Impedance Sensors for Tissue Differentiation, 09/2021.
  • Bachelor thesis (B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Compensation of disturbance effects in minimally invasive impedance sensors, 09/2021.
  • Bachelor thesis (B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Multimodal tissue modelling for model-based tissue differentiation using electrical and mechanical properties, 03/2021.
  • Bachelor thesis (B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Electrical tissue modelling in the context of tissue differentiation using electrical impedance spectroscopy, 03/2021.
  • Master thesis (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering): Modeling and computer-aided simulation of the electrical behavior of urinary bladder tissue, 03/2021.