We are thrilled to announce that the Kollegium of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) will support and host our workshop, “Applications of Tomographic Methods.” The workshop will take place in Vienna from June 8th to 12th, 2026, and will bring together invited experts in our group topics, including adaptive optics, extragalactic archaeology, quantitative imaging, super-resolution microscopy, and trapped particles.
PhD Defense: Lisa Krainz
We are pleased to announce that Lisa Krainz, PhD student in the subproject Multi-Modal Imaging, has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Quantitative Parameter Extraction from Optical Coherence Tomography and Elastography” on 22 September 2025.
Lisa’s doctoral studies were supervised by Prof. Wolfgang Drexler, Head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna.
Congratulations Lisa from the SFB team! We wish you all the best for your future.
Eighth SFB Member Meeting
From 9 to 12 September 2025, the Eighth SFB Member Meeting of the SFB Project “Tomography Across the Scales” took place at the Hotel Royal in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria.
This final meeting provided a great opportunity for SFB members to present exciting new research topics to a technical audience and foster discussions on connected research areas. The presentations were both insightful and engaging, and the group also enjoyed an excursion and enjoy the Upper-Austria warm hospitality.
Otmar gave a presentation at the AIP 2025 conference
Professor Otmar Scherzer, the speaker of the SFB project “Tomography across the scales”, presented a talk titled Regularization of Nonlinear Inverse Problems – From Functional Analysis to Data-Driven Approaches at the mini-symposium “Fortieth Anniversary of the Journal Inverse Problems” at the 12th AIP 2025. The biannual Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) conference is one of the biggest conferences in its field. This year, it was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 28 July to 1 August.
You can watch a recording of the talk here:
Seeing Inside: Exploring Computed Tomography with Kids
This year, Axel Kittenberger, Denise Schmutz, and Noemi Naujoks once again participated in the Vienna Children’s University, this time with two workshops, each tailored for 20 children aged 7 to 9. Building on last year’s popular topic, we brought back Paula the Sloth to help explain the fascinating world of computed tomography in a playful and accessible way.
The children explored the fundamentals of tomography through a series of interactive stations. These included quizzes, experiments with light and shadow, paint-by-numbers, and exercises demonstrating how mathematics enables us to visualize the inside of objects.
We were excited to see how quickly the children understood complex ideas when given the chance to explore them in a fun way.
Want to test your own knowledge? Try our tomography quiz!
PhD Defense: Shiyu Deng
We are pleased to announce that Shiyu Deng, a former PhD student in the subproject Multi-Modal Imaging, successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title “Technical Advances in Dual-Modal Preclinical Optical Coherence and Photoacoustic Microscopy” on 25 June 2025.
Shiyu’s doctoral studies were supervised by Prof. Wolfgang Drexler, Head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Medical University of Vienna), and co-supervised by Prof. Leopold Schmetterer (Nanyang Technological University). Congratulations Shiyu from the SFB team! We wish you all the best for your future.
SFB Conference “Tomography across the scales”
The SFB Conference “Tomography across the scales” took place from the 16th to the 20th of June at the beautiful Lake Wolfgangsee venue close to Strobl.
We were delighted to welcome many distinguished speakers from renowned international universities. The meeting provided a valuable opportunity to foster interdisciplinary communication and facilitate networking between tomography experts from various disciplines, including astronomy, inverse problems, medicine, biology, and physics.
During the free afternoon, some participants took part in an excursion to the lake Schwarzensee, where they enjoyed the breeze and the view of the lake, while others took the cog railway up Schafberg to enjoy the panorama.
SFB Member Mia Kvåle Løvmo interviewed by Innovation Tirol
We are pleased to announce that our SFB member, Mia Kvåle Løvmo, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Physics at the University of Innsbruck, was interviewed by the magazine top.tirol in the Innovation Tirol section. The interview focuses on Mia’s research into a technology that utilizes ultrasound to move organoids in a controlled manner, without mechanical confinement, enabling the phenomenon known as “acoustic levitation.” The full interview (in German) can be found at: https://www.top.tirol/news-forschung-innovation/forschung-in-der-schwebe.
Professor Otmar Scherzer has been named Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
We are thrilled to announce that our Speaker, Otmar Scherzer, has been named a SIAM Fellow of the 2025 Class, a prestigious recognition reserved for researchers who have made outstanding contributions and service to the community in Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Professor Scherzer has been nominated for his prolific and profound research in the field of inverse and ill-posed problems, with breakthrough results in regularization theory, tomography, and the mathematics of imaging.
Congratulations, Otmar!
Source: https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-announces-2025-class-of-fellows/
A successful 17th internal SFB meeting
From the 3rd to the 6th of December the 17th internal SFB meeting – winter version – took place at the Obergurgl University Centre in Tyrol, Austria. We were very pleased to welcome as invited speakers Giovanni S. Alberti (University of Genoa, Italy), Bernhard Baumann (Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria), and Sebastian Kamann (Liverpool John Moores University), along with early career researchers from different EU and non-EU institutions. The meeting was a great opportunity to foster interdisciplinary communication, promote networking between researchers and experts in the field of tomography, and enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the Tyrolean Alps. The SFB members had the opportunity to present their work and welcome new members.
We look forward to the first SFB Conference of the project “Tomography across the scales”, which will take place in Strobl, Austria, in 2025. Stay tuned!
