About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at KTH and interested in anything related to complex systems and control, at the intersection of nature, health, and engineering.
My current projects include:
- Control in cardiovascular health
- Control of soft robots
- Multi-sensor tissue differentiation for tumor detection.
Educational and academic milestones
| Year | University | Position |
|---|---|---|
| since 2026 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Postdoc in Control for Cardiovascular Health |
| 2025-2026 | Stanford University | Postdoc in Soft Robotics and Control |
| 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
- 2025: Awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
- 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
- 2026: Programm Committee ISMT 2026 (4th International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies).
- 2026: Programm Committee AUTOMED + MedRob Symposium.
- 2025: Programm Committee ISMT 2025 (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.
Talks
- 2026: Speaker for the “Who-is-who Spotlight Talks” at AUTOMED x MedRob Symposium, Hanover, Germany, as a “Rising star” in the field, hosted by Thomas Seel, 18.03.2026.
- 2025: Elephant Trunk-inspired soft robots. IT University of Copenhagen, hosted by Kasper Stoy, 21.11.2025.
- 2025: Elephant Trunk-inspired soft robots. Fueling Minds talk series at DTU Electro, Technical University of Denmark, hosted by Silvia Tolu at NRT-Lab, 19.11.2025.
- 2025: Intraoperative Multi-Sensor Tissue Differentiation in Oncology and Elephant Trunk-inspired soft robots. KTH Stockholm, Intelligent Heart Technology Lab, hosted by Seraina Dual, 10.11.2025.
- 2025: Elephant Trunk-inspired soft robots. TU Delft, Peirlink Lab, hosted by Mathias Peirlinck, 30.10.2025.
- 2024: Population Dynamics - How to model and control interaction-related phenomena. University Medical Center Göttingen, hosted by Nicolai Spicher, 09.12.2024.
- 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, hosted by Steffi Knorn, 01.03.2024.
- 2023: Impedance-Based Tumor Differentiation in the Urinary Bladder. IEEE EMBS Germany Chapter – EMBC 2023 Recap, hosted by Nicolai Spicher, 04.09.2023.
Reviews
- 2025: American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, ACS In Focus series, AUTOMED Symposium, 3rd International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT).
- 2024: Springer Nature Scientific Reports, 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 (co-supervised, DTU): Beyond static connectivity of leads: Evaluating graph state-space models for multi-lead ECG signals, running.
- 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.
Outreach
- 2025: Speaker at “EMBS KickOff 2025!”, an event by the newly established EMBS student chapter at University of California, San Diego. I shared my experiences on how to get involved with EMBS and all the perks of volunteering (👉more).
- 2025: Spotlight Interview by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee “Robot Control” (👉more).
- 2024: Judge in the assessment center of the Femtec Scholarship for women in STEM to determine the next cohort of scholarship holders at the University of Stuttgart.
- 2024: Visiting my old high school (Friedrich-Schiller Gymnasium, Marbach am Neckar) to advertise the study program “Engineering Cybernetics” at the University of Stuttgart.
- 2024: Plenary speaker at the Female Leadership Development Panel at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society (👉more).
- 2023: Face of the study program “Engineering Cybernetics”, along with Festo’s Bionic Soft Arm (👉more).
- 2022: Featured Researcher – Women in Research Calendar 2022 (👉more).