TrackAF

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!

Software Carpentry

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.

KIT-IBT

As part of the event series "Junge Talente – Wissenschaft und Musik", Miriam Weiß and Simon Kreutzenberger will present their presentation “OCT: Dem Auge beim Untersuchen anderer Augen helfen” at KIT Campus Nord on February 5. The talk provides a brief introduction to optical coherence tomography (OCT) and its applications in medical imaging. It will be followed by a piano concert featuring students from the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.

KIT-IBT

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.

DiTraRe

On December 2–3, the very first DiTraRe-Symposium on Digitalisation of Research took place at ZKM Karlsruhe. The event offered two inspiring days full of ideas, exchange, and great energy. Axel and Silvia represented the use case “AI in Biomedical Engineering” within the DiTraRe project, and Silvia also presented a poster on “How Researchers Access Clinical Data”.

ESC

We presented new advances at the #ESCAIsummit2025 in Berlin. Highlights included a talk on the use of computational heart models to optimize ablation for atrial fibrillation, plus two posters showcasing explainable AI for clinical use and functional atrial digital twins.