Engineering for Health
Welcome to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). For more than 60 years we have been active in research and teaching in the field of biomedical engineering.
In interdisciplinary projects together with medical doctors and medical industry, we investigate new technical systems that help to diagnose diseases earlier and more accurately as well as systems that make therapies more successful.
Optical Imaging for intraoperative navigation and diagnosis – providing structural and functional information
Lead: Werner Nahm
Planning, personalization and monitoring of medical treatments
Lead: Maria Francesca Spadea
Mathematical simulations for optimizing cardiovascular prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Lead: Axel Loewe
Our PhD student Joshua Steyer was recently interviewed on “Nachgefragt – Wissen, wie’s läuft”, the science podcast by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In this episode, Joshua talks about how to model the heart, particularly at the microscale, as well as the current challenges in realising such realistic simulations.
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The TrackAF Doctoral Network, a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action focused on atrial cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation is recruiting 15 PhD candidates. The network brings together academic, clinical and industrial partners across Europe and offers fully funded, 36-month PhD positions with strong interdisciplinary and international training. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in a new country, apply by April 12!
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In Summer Semester 2026, the IBT will offer the 2-day workshop “Practical Introduction to Research Software Engineering”. The course is worth 1 ECTS and is a hands-on introduction to the Unix shell, the version control system Git, and Python.
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A new book chapter co-authored by our team has been published in Ethical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (De Gruyter Brill). The chapter explores ethical challenges surrounding the development and deployment of AI in biomedical technologies, highlighting the importance of uncertainty awareness in healthcare innovation.
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Our new review article on artificial intelligence in cardiovascular medicine has been published. The paper outlines methodological foundations and highlights applications in imaging and ECG analysis, including deep learning for functional assessment and disease prediction. It also addresses generative AI, implementation challenges, and ethical considerations. The article is available in German.
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Our Master graduate Carl-Leandro Enslin received this year's Best Thesis Award from the CRC 1173 "Wave Phenomena" for his master’s thesis in IBT's CaMo group, which focused on improving computational models of cardiac electrophysiology and their relation to excitation wave propagation.
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Head of Institute - Spokesman of collegial institute management
+49 721 608 - 43849
Werner Nahm ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Raum 514
Head of Institute
+49 721 608-48035mf spadea ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Raum 512
Akademischer Oberrat
Head of Computational Cardiac Modeling
+49 721 608 - 42790Axel Loewe ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Raum 507
Sekretariat/Assistenz
+49 721 608-42650irene guenter ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
513
30.33 Campus Süd