Admin and research management
Sandra Wittwer
Office manager
Stefan Reinhard
Service manager
Cornelia Mileto
Office manager
Project leaders
Inti Zlobec
Professor, colorectal cancer
Lead of Odyssey
Hannah Williams
Junior Group Leader, Tumour ecotyping
Amjad Khan
Research Associate
Bastian Dislich
Pathologist, upper GI
Heather Dawson
Pathologist, lower GI
Wiebke Solass
Pathologist, gyneco
Researchers
Philipp Kirchner
Senior research assistant
Kiarash Tajbakhsh
Postdoctoral researcher
Tereza Losmanova
Pathologist, lung
Martin Wartenberg
Pathologist, pancreas
Branislav Zagrapan
Pathologist, surgical
María Rodríguez Martínez
Adjunct researcher
PhD students
Philipp Zens
MD-PhD candidate
José F. Carreño Martínez
PhD candidate
Nina Baumgartner
PhD candidate
Jacob Hanimann
PhD candidate
Neus Vegas I Morales
PhD candidate
Javier Garcia Baroja
PhD candidate
Sergio Vázquez M. de Oca
PhD candidate
Mohamed Mansour Faye
PhD candidate
Ekaterina Sedykh
PhD candidate
Master thesis students
Mohamed Mansour Faye (MSc candidate, Master of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Bern and University of Fribourg)
Javier García Baroja (MSc candidate, Master of Biomedical Engineering, Bioimaging, ETH Zurich)
Kartik Kohli (MSc candidate, Master of Computer Science)
Joël Baumann (MMed candidate Master of Medicine)
Joël Schlegel (MMed candidate Master of Medicine)
PhD graduates
Mauro Gwerder (PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, September 2025)
Thesis: Unsupervised Assessment of Tumor Buds and their Micro-Environment using Multiplexed Immunofluorescence and Image Analysis Approaches in Rectal Cancer
Rina Mehmeti (PhD in Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland, June 2025)
Thesis: From Chromatin modification to cellular motility: Epigenetically repressed CDX2 promotes colorectal cancer cell migration and tumor budding
Elias Baumann (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, July 2025)
Thesis: Cellular Cartography: Nuclei Segmentation for Biomarker Discovery in Colorectal Cancer
Ana Leni Frei (PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, March 2025)
Thesis: Geometric deep learning and graph-based analysis to study the effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer
Christian Abbet (Doctoral Program in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Techniques, LTS5 – Signal Processing Laboratory 5 - EPFL, Switzerland, November 2023)
Thesis: Self-Supervised Learning for Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis in Computational Pathology: An Application to Colorectal Cancer
Amjad Khan (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, November 2022)
Thesis: Computional Analysis of Corectal Caner Metastases in Lymph Nodes using Deep learning Technigues
Linda Studer (PhD in Computer Science, DIVA Research Group, University of Fribourg, iCoSyS, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland, January 2025)
Thesis: Deep Learning for Graph-based Representations of Histopathological Images
Alumni
Cristina Graham Martínez, Research associate, 2025
Atefeh Fakhari, MSc candidate, Master of Computer Science, 2023
Chris Rüttimann, Master of AI in Medicine, 2023
Meisam Asgari, Master of Computer Science, 2023
Dr. Cansaran Saygili Demir, Postdoc, joined Lunaphore Technologies, 2023
Luca Noti, Medical Dissertation, 2023
Dr. Huu-Giao Nguyen, Postdoc, joined Medimaps Group, 2022
Dr. José A. Galván, Research scientist, joined Roche, 2022
Ibai Lertxundi Gomara, Master thesis student, joined Nestlé, 2022
Laura Purcaro, Master in Computer Science, 2022
Cédric Pieren, Master of Medicine, 2022
Lize Dekkers, Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, 2022
Jannis Wallau, Master in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park, 2021
Sven Wallau, Master in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park, 2021
Tim Ogi, Master in Bioinformatics, joined Medizininformatiker, 2020
Dr. Kristin Uth-Gottardi, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2020
Shushan Toneyan, Master in Computer Science, 2019
Julia Unternaehrer, Medical Dissertation, 2019
Micha Eichmann, Master in Computer Science, 2019
Dr. Stefan Zahnd, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2018