Jun. Prof. Dr. Sandy Engelhardt
Head of research group
(AG Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine)
Scientific Staff
(Clinic for Cardiac Surgery)
Scientific Staff
(Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology)
Focus
Medical Image Processing, Deep Learning, Computer-assisted Surgery
Medical/Professional background
- November 2016
Graduation Dr.sc.hum. with distinction (summa cum laude)
at the Medical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany- November 2012 – November 2016
PhD Student at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ),
Division for Medical and Biological Informatics- August 2012
Master of Science (M.Sc.) with distinction
- January 2011 – July 2011
Semester abroad studying Biomedical Engineering,
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa- January 2011 – July 2011
Internship at the Cape Universities Brain Imaging Center,
Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa- September 2006 – July 2012
Bachelor and Master studies Computervisualistik,
University Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Scientific background
- since December 2019
Head of Working Group “Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine” (AICM), University Hospital Heidelberg
- April 2018 – December 2019
Head of Research Group “Heart” at Research Campus STIMULATE, Magdeburg, Germany
- April 2018 – November 2019
Postdoctoral Research Scientist at University of Applied Science, Mannheim
- October 2017 – March 2018
Visiting Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Working Group “Computer-assisted Surgery“ and Working Group “Visualization“, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
- July 2017 – September 2017
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
- November 2016 – June 2017
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Division of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
- November 2012 – June 2017
Member of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 125
Cognition Guided Surgery, Project B01:
Knowledge-based Assistance System for Reconstructive Valve Surgery
Commendations
- October 2018
3rd Place EACTS Techno-College Innovation Award by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), Milan, Italy
- April 2018
Runner-up conhIT Young Academics Award for Simon Sauerzapf’s Bachelorthesis, Berlin, Germany (Supervision) (1.000 €)
- September 2017
Winner MICCAI Challenge Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC) – 1st place Subchallenge Segmentation of multiple cardiac structures with Deep Learning, 2nd place Subchallenge Classification, MICCAI-STACOM, Quebec, Canada
- March 2017
BVM-Award 2017 for the best dissertation in the field of Medical Image Processing at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Heidelberg, Germany (500 €)
- March 2016
Runner-up Best Paper Award at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Berlin, Germany (Second Author) (300€)
- October 2015
Runner-up EACTS Techno-College Innovation Award by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- April 2015
Runner-up conhIT Young Academics Award for Silvio Kolb's Bachelor thesis, Berlin, Germany (Supervision) (500€)
- September 2014
Best Paper Award at MICCAI -Workshop Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI), Boston, USA ($300)
- March 2014
Best presentation award at Workshop Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Aachen, Germany (300 €)