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Scientific Expertise

Curr. Vitae

2025 Assoc. Prof. at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation at the Medical University of Graz
2022 -2025 Ass. Prof. at the Institute für Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz
2019 -2022 Lecturer (till Feb 2022) / Senior Lecturer (from Feb 2022) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
2016 -2016 Research visit (three months) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2015 -2019 Key Researcher Medical Computer Vision at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical Forensic Imaging Graz
2009 -2014 Post Doc at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical Forensic Imaging Graz and at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology
2007 -2008 Post Doc at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology
2002 -2007 Phd study at the Faculty of Informatics, Graz University of Technology
2002 -2003 Two research visits with Prof. Milan Sonka and Prof. Eric Hoffman, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
1995 -2001 Study of "Telematik" (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) at Graz University of Technology

Awards

2025 Outstanding Area Chair Award at MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, awarded by MICCAI Society to top 2% Area Chairs
2025 Outstanding Reviewer at ICCV 2025, Hawaii, awarded by ICCV Program Chairs to top 3% Reviewers
2024 Best Performance Award at Track LAScarQS++ of MICCAI Challenge "Towards real world medical image analysis" (CARE)
2024 Best Paper Award at MICCAI Challenge "Towards real world medical image analysis" (CARE)
2023 Runner Up MYOSAIQ MRI Infarct Segmentation Challenge at the Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH) conference in Lyon (Thaler et al.)
2020 Outstanding Reviewer at International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), US
2020 Outstanding Reviewer at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, UK
2020 Winner of the VerSE'20 Large Scale Vertebrae Segmentation Challenge at MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru
2019 Winner of the VerSE'19 Large Scale Vertebrae Segmentation Challenge at MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China
2019 Runner up for the Medical Image Analysis Special Issue on MICCAI 2018 Best Journal Paper Award (awarded at MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China)
2019 Outstanding Reviewer at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, South Korea
2017 Best Paper Award and Challenge Winner at MICCAI STACOM Workshop on Multi-Modality Whole Heart Segmentation (MM-WHS), (Payer et al.), Quebec City, Canada, awarded by NVIDIA
2017 Best Paper Award OAGM/AAPR (Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition) Workshop 2017 (Neff et al.), Vienna
2015 Short-list for MICCAI young scientist award (Payer et al.), Munich, Germany
2015 2nd place basic research poster price of the Austrian Society for Pneumology (Payer et al.), Graz
2015 Runners Up Best Reviewer Awards Int Conf on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Munich, Germany
2014 Honourable Mention Award MICCAI Workshop Computational Methods and Clinical Applications in Spine Imaging (Hammernik et al.), Boston, US
2013 Best Paper Award Int Conf Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (Helmberger et al.), Birmingham, UK

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2024 -2025 BioTechMed-Graz
Full Member
2009 -2025 IEEE
Member
2006 -2025 MICCAI Society
Member

Reviewer for scientific journals

2007 -2025 MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
2011 -2025 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
2025 -2025 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
2011 -2024 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
2023 -2024 COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
2023 -2024 IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
2021 -2021 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2017 -2017 JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
2015 -2016 ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY
2010 -2015 COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
2015 -2015 MEDICAL PHYSICS
2011 -2014 PATTERN RECOGNITION
2011 -2011 FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
2011 -2011 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2021 -2025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) - Netherlands
2024 -2025 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG )- Sonderforschungsbereich - Germany
2020 -2020 European Commission ERC Advanced Grant - European Union
2017 -2017 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - Switzerland
2015 -2015 United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation - Israel

Organizer of scientific conferences, Chairs

2018 OAGM Workshop 2018: Medical Image Analysis
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
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