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C U R R I C U L U M V I TÆ

Name: PD Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Inform.Klaus Hermann Maier-Hein(ne Fritzsche)

Date of birth: December 15, 1980

Place of birth: Freiburg i. Br., Germany

Address: Kastellweg 33

69120 Heidelbergk.maier-hein@dkfz.dePhone +49 6221 423545

Professional Experience

06/2014-ongoing Head of junior group Medical Image Computing, German Cancer ResearchCenter (DKFZ), Heidelberg

10/2013-ongoing Deputy Head of Division of Medical and Biological Informatics (Prof. Hans-Peter Meinzer), DKFZ, Heidelberg

03/2010-10/2013 Postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Medical and Biological Informatics (Prof.Hans-Peter Meinzer), DKFZ, Heidelberg

09/2011-11/2011 Visiting Post-Doctorate Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Laboratory ofMathematics in Imaging (Prof. Carl-Fredrik Westin, Prof. Ofer Pasternak)

09/2006-08/2008 Freelancing as a software consultant and software developer in differentprojects (e.g. for Fun Communications GmbH, Karlsruhe)

11/2005-02/2007 Research visit at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, ComputerGraphics and Image Processing Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Aldo von Wangenheim)

07/2005-10/2005 Student research assistant at University Clinic Heidelberg, Special ResearchArea 414: Computer- and Sensor-assisted Heart Surgery

01/2002-09/2004 Student research assistant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Division ofLogic, Complexity and Deduction Systems, European reseach grant FP6-IST:Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

Education

03/2010-04/2016 Habilitation, Medical Faculty, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

03/2007-03/2010 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

10/2001-10/2006 Diploma in Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

11/2005-09/2006 M.Sc. Computer Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

09/2004-07/2005 Studies abroad, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

10/2003-07/2006 Minor in Applied Studies of Culture and Society, Centre for Cultural and GeneralStudies, Karlsruhe, Germany

09/1996-06/1997 Foreign exchange student and High School diploma, Bradshaw Public School,Nebraska, USA

08/1992-06/2000 High School, Domschule Schleswig, Germany

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Honours & Awards

03/2016 Award for the best scientific contribution of the conference – ”3D statistical shapemodels with distributed appearance modeling – segmentation based on voting”(last author, congress BVM 2016, Berlin, Germany)

09/2015 Johann Peter Sussmilch Medal 2015 – ”Widespread white matter degenerationpreceding the onset of dementia” (first author, Society Medical Informatics,Biometry, Epidemiology, GMDS)

05/2015 CURAC Award best contribution of the conference – ”Crowdgestutzte Organseg-mentierung: Moglichkeiten und Grenzen” (co-author, congress CURAC 2015,Bremen)

04/2015 ISMRM Merit Award magna cum laude – ”A machine learning based approachto fiber tractography” (last author, congress ISMRM 2015, Toronto, Canada)

03/2015 Award for the best scientific contribution of the conference – ”A memetic searchscheme for robust registration of diffusion-weighted MR images” (last author,congress BVM 2015, Lubeck, Germany)

12/2014 German High Tech Champions Award in Medical Imaging – ”Diffusion ImagingPhantom – Assessing the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pipeline” (FederalMinistry of Education and Research, congress RSNA 2014, Chicago, USA)

04/2014 ISMRM Merit Award magna cum laude – ”Multiparametrical diffusion tensorimaging for the detection of anaplastic transformation of low-grade gliomas”(co-author, congress ISMRM 2014, Milan, Italy)

04/2013 ISMRM Merit Award magna cum laude – ”Free-Water Correction Reveals WideSpread Differences Between Stable and Converting MCI Subjects” (first author,congress ISMRM 2013, Salt Lake City, USA)

03/2013 Award for the best scientific contribution of the conference – ”Quantification ofChanges in Language-Related Brain Areas in Autism Spectrum Disorders UsingLarge-Scale Network Analysis” (last author, congress BVM 2013, Heidelberg,Germany)

02/2013 Best poster award – ”Reduced centrality of Wernicke’s area in autism” (lastauthor, congress SPIE Medical Imaging 2013, Orlando, USA)

04/2012 ISMRM Merit Award magna cum laude – ”A High Resolution TractographyPhantom” (co-author, congress ISMRM 2012, Melbourne, Australia)

03/2011 BVM-Award for the best scientific thesis of the year – ”Quantification of structuralchanges in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging” (Medical ImageAnalysis (BVM) 2011, Lubeck, Germany)

11/2010 Young Academics Award 2010 (NeuroWiss – Association for the Promotion ofNeurological Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany)

Scholarships

03/2007-03/2010 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (Helmholtz International Graduate School for CancerResearch, Heidelberg, Germany)

11/2005-02/2007 University scholarship, full graduate study grant from 11/2006 on (FederalUniversity of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

11/2003-10/2006 Full graduate study grant for outstanding achievements (SAP Deutschland AG &

Co. KG, Walldorf, Germany)

11/2005-10/2006 Scholarship in support of the master’s thesis (Deutscher Akademischer Aus-landsdienst, DAAD, Bonn, Germany)

09/2004-07/2005 Scholarship in support of studies abroad (European Commission, ERASMUS

Programme, Brussels, Belgium)

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Research Grants

09/2016-09/2019 German Research Foundation (DFG) grant – Neurological soft signs as an externalmarker of neuronal dysfunction in schizophrenia, total volume ∼ 380,000e,group share ∼ 190,000e, PI

07/2016-07/2019 DFG grant – Characterization of neurodevelopmental disease trajectories usingrichly annotated sequences of graphs, total volume ∼ 380,000e, group share∼ 190,000e, PI

03/2016-03/2018 International Myeloma Foundation – Semi-automated image analysis in patientswith multiple myeloma, ∼ 280,000e, co-principal investigator (co-PI)

01/2015-05/2017 Central Innovation Program for small and medium-sized businesses – Extractionand domain-adapted classification of information from medical imaging data,∼ 157,000e, principal investigator (PI)

07/2014-06/2017 Dietmar Hopp Foundation – Quantification of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis –LUFIT, ∼ 250,000e, PI

07/2013-06/2014 Priority Topic grant, German Cancer Research Center – An imaging-basednetwork model of tumor propagation, ∼ 60,000e, PI

04/2013-03/2016 Dietmar Hopp Foundation – Adolescent brain development, ∼ 350,000e, co-PI

02/2013-01/2016 DFG grant – Quantitative analysis of regional lung movement using hightemporal resolution MRI, total volume ∼ 600,000e, group share ∼ 210,000e, PI

07/2012-09/2014 Young investigators grant, German Cancer Research Center – A global approachto vessel segmentation, ∼ 20,000e, PI

07/2012-06/2016 Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR 125 Cognition-Guided Surgery) of theDFG – Knowledge-based Multispectral Tissue Analysis, ∼ 360,000e, PI

07/2012-06/2016 Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR 125 Cognition-Guided Surgery) of theDFG – Functional Diffusion-Weighted Imaging for Tissue Analysis, ∼ 120,000e,co-PI

05/2010-03/2014 DFG grant – Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on brain morphology andfunction: Multimodal MR image analysis, ∼ 150,000e, co-PI

04/2010-11/2014 DFG grant – Statistical structural models for the automized computation ofindividual neuronal connectivity profiles in dementia research, ∼ 660,000e, PI

Teaching

12/2015 Baden-Wurttemberg Certificate for University Didactics

10/2012-ongoing Parts of graduate course Imaging in Radiotherapy as lecturer for UniversityHeidelberg

10/2012-ongoing Graduate course Biomedical Informatics as lecturer for University Heidelbergand University Heilbronn

10/2010-ongoing Graduate course Component-Based Software Engineering as lecturer for UniversityHeidelberg and University Heilbronn

04/2009-ongoing Seminar Current Challenges in Medical Image Analysis as moderator and lecturerfor University Heidelberg

03/2010-ongoing Co-supervision of doctoral/master theses at the Division of Medical andBiological Informatics, DKFZ

Academic services

09/2017 Member of program committee MICCAI 2017 Quebec City

03/2017 General chair conference Medical Imaging for Medicine (BVM) 2017 in Heidelberg

05/2015 Organizing committee Tractography Challenge (Diffusion Study Group at the23rd Annual Meeting of the ISMRM’15)

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04/2015-ongoing Chair of Working Group Image Processing – NCT Heidelberg/Dresden

11/2014-ongoing Spokesman of the DKFZ junior group leaders

01/2014-ongoing Member of Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) Heidelberg

11/2013-ongoing Member of Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg/Mannheim

2013-ongoing Member of program committee of the annual Computational Diffusion MRI

(CDMRI’13) workshop at MICCAI, International Conference on Medical ImageComputing and Computer Assisted Intervention

06/2013 Faculty member Workshop on Diffusion MRI in Traumatic Brain Injury CARS 2013

02/2013 Course instructor Diffusion Imaging, SPIE Medical Imaging 2013, Orlando,Florida

07/2012-ongoing Member of the Special Research Center coordination team SFB/TRR 125 Cognition-Guided Surgery

05/2012 Session chair Neurodegenerative Disease Including Dementia & Parkinson’s Disease,ISMRM 2012 in Melbourne, Australia,

2011-ongoing Member of program committee annual conference Medical Imaging for Medicine(BVM)

2010-ongoing Reviewer for international journals including NeuroImage, Medical Image Analy-sis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Human Brain Mapping, Alzheimer’s &Dementia, and Neuroscience Letters

2009-ongoing Reviewer for international and national conferences including MICCAI, MMBIA,BVM, CARS, and ISMRM

Invited talks

05/2017 VDE-Workshop Cognitive Systems and Deep Learning in Medicine, Frankfurt

09/2016 Keynote workshop Imaging and Feature Recognition Meet Computer Vision, Leipzig

09/2016 International GridKa School Data Science and Modern Architectures, Karlsruhe

06/2016 ISC High Performance conference, Frankfurt

04/2016 Symposium Images and Network of the Brain, Hamburg

02/2016 International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology, Geneva

12/2015 Symposium Frontiers in Vision-based Perception and Control, Bremen

11/2015 Gliwice Scientific Meetings, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

06/2015 Keynote Intl. Workshop Medical Imaging and Cognition-guided Surgery, Heidelberg

03/2015 Symposium SFB 1134 Functional Ensembles, Heidelberg

10/2014 Neurobiology Lectures Interdisciplinary Center for Neuro Sciences, Heidelberg

09/2014 Keynote Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Hohenwart

09/2014 Symposium Deutsche Rontgengesellschaft (e.V), Heidelberg

09/2014 Symposium Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg

12/2013 Symposium Advances in Practical Medical Imaging, Heidelberg

06/2012 Seminar Center for Medical Image Computing, UCL, London

11/2011 Seminar IDDRC, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

11/2011 Seminar Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Boston

Heidelberg, June 27, 2017