Technical Education

• Centre of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy
  Institute of Forensic Medicine
  University of Bern, Switzerland
  Prof. M.J. Thali, MD, MBA, director
  (Since Jul 2007)
• Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics
  University of Bern, Switzerland, PhD Student
  (Jul 2007 – Jun 2009)
• MEM Research Center, Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics
  University of Bern, Switzerland, PhD Student
  (Jan 2005 – Jun 2007)
• Tofwerk, Mass Spectrometry
  (Oct 2004 – Dec 2004)
• EMPA Thun, Robotics and Nanotechnology (Intership)

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern, Switzerland
"The Virtobot – a multi functional tool for surface scanning and minimally invasive post-mortem biopsy."
(Prof. M.J. Thali, MD, MBA, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Prof. Dr.-Ing. L.P. Nolte, Institute for Surgical Technologies and Biomechanics, University of Bern, 2009)

Diploma in Computer Science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
"Visual Object Tracking inside the Scanning Electron Microscope by Means of Conditional Density Propagation (Condensation)."
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. S. Fatikow, Department of Microrobotics and Control Engineering, University of Oldenburg, 2004)

Scientific Areas of Interest

• Computer Assisted Surgical Navigation
• Image Guided Post-Mortem Biopsy