Curriculum Vitae

1. since 2024

   Doctoral researcher

   DFG Research Training Group 2535 WisPerMed · FH Dortmund & University Hospital Essen

   Language models for clinical guideline development, grounded question answering on health records and clinical text generation. Lead organiser of ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2025 and 2026.

2. 2023

   Research associate

   Hannover Medical School (MHH) · Medical Data Integration Center

   HiGHmed use case Infection Control.

3. 2022–2023

   Student research assistant

   Applied AI research group · Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

   Data management and AI frameworks.

4. 2021–2023

   IT specialist

   University Hospital Münster · Central Biobank Münster

   Data management, Java development and biobanking systems (STARLIMS, CentraXX).

5. 2020–2021

   Data manager

   University Hospital Münster · Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine

   Data management, SAS programming for the MS registry, database administration.

6. 2018–2019

   Student assistant

   Competence Center for Clinical Trials Bremen · University of Bremen

   Data management and SAS programming for a burn-wound trial.

1. since 2024

   Doctoral studies (Dr. rer. medic.)

   Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen

   Dissertation in preparation.

2. 2020–2023

   M.Sc. Medical Informatics

   FH Dortmund

   Final grade 1.6 (German scale, 1.0 = best). Thesis (grade 1.2): Normalisation, classification and entity linking of MRI reports from the BiDirect study using Transformer architectures and the RadLex lexicon.

3. 2014–2018

   B.Sc. Medical Informatics

   FH Dortmund

   Thesis (grade 1.3): Text mining for information extraction in evidence-based medicine, supported by machine learning.

• 2026

  1st place in Subtask 3, 2nd place in Subtask 4

  ArchEHR-QA 2026 shared task · CL4Health @ LREC 2026, Palma

  43 participating teams

  CL4Health @ LREC 2026
• 2025

  1st place overall — first in Task A and Task B

  PerAnsSumm 2025 shared task · CL4Health @ NAACL 2025, Albuquerque

  23 teams, 155 submissions · shared first author

  CL4Health @ NAACL 2025
• 2024

  1st place

  “Discharge Me!” shared task on clinical text generation · BioNLP @ ACL 2024, Bangkok

  16 teams, 211 submissions · first author

  BioNLP @ ACL 2024
• 2024

  “Most Innovative Approach” award, 4th place overall

  BioLaySumm 2024 shared task · BioNLP @ ACL 2024, Bangkok

  53 participating teams

  BioNLP @ ACL 2024
• 2022

  Best Poster Award

  BIOSIGNALS 2022 · BIOSTEC 2022

  Heart rate estimation based on optical flow (with H. Schäfer and C. M. Friedrich)

  BIOSIGNALS 2022

1. 2026

   Lead organiser, ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2026

   CLEF 2026 · Jena, Germany

   10th edition: concept detection and caption generation with synthetic data extensions.

2. 2025

   Lead organiser, ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2025

   CLEF 2025 · Madrid, Spain

   9th edition, including the task session at the CLEF Labs workshop.

3. 2024

   Co-organiser, ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2024

   CLEF 2024 · Grenoble, France

   8th edition.

1. 2026

   Ein KI-Assistenzsystem zur Aktualisierung der S3-Leitlinie Melanom

   Oral presentation (FV 67) · 36th German Skin Cancer Congress (ADO), Leipzig

2. 2025

   Preliminary Evaluation of an Open-Source LLM for Lay Translation of German Clinical Documents

   Recorded presentation · CL4Health @ NAACL 2025 (with A. Dada, A. Fleischhauer, T. Pakull)

3. 2024

   WisPerMed at BioLaySumm: Adapting Autoregressive LLMs for Lay Summarization

   Recorded presentation · BioNLP @ ACL 2024 (with T. Pakull)

1. 2026

   AI assistance for updating the S3 melanoma guideline (ePoster accompanying FV 67)

   36th German Skin Cancer Congress (ADO), Leipzig

2. 2025

   Influence of AI-generated trust labels on physicians’ information seeking: an eye-tracking experiment (eP190)

   35th German Skin Cancer Congress (ADO), Essen

3. 2025

   Seamless Evidence Discovery: an AI-powered search engine for melanoma research and care (eP064, short talk; co-author)

   35th German Skin Cancer Congress (ADO), Essen

4. 2025

   A step toward patient-centered oncology communication with an open-source LLM (eP191; co-author)

   35th German Skin Cancer Congress (ADO), Essen

The full list of publications is on the publications page.