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:
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/
SFB at Acoustofluidics conferences in Uppsala and Cargèse
This fall, two members of our SFB team, Monika Ritsch-Marte and Mia Kvåle Løvmo from the subproject on imaging of trapped particles, had the opportunity to attend two prominent international conferences focused on acoustofluidics.
The annual Acoustofluidics 2024 conference, organized by the Acoustofluidics Society, took place in Uppsala, Sweden, from August 14 to 16.
Researchers from around the globe gathered to share insights and discuss a diverse range of topics related to acoustic trapping and microfluidics – from theoretical advancements to innovative devices and novel applications.
In September, The European Summer School on Physical Acoustics and its applications was held in Cargèse in Corsica. The summer school offered a week filled with courses on ultrasonic fundamentals and engaging ‘Hot Topic’ seminars led by experts in the field. Attendees benefited from experimental demonstrations and numerical tutorials that provided valuable hands-on experience, and young researchers also showcased their work through short talks and poster sessions.
Monika was an invited keynote speaker in Uppsala. In Cargèse, she teamed up with Bruce Drinkwater, and together, they gave a ‘Hot Topic’ seminar on the ‘Parallels, Differences and Synergies of Optical and Acoustic Manipulation’. Mia contributed presentations on her recent work on acoustofluidic devices for optical tomography.
Both Uppsala and Corsica events offered great opportunities for sharing knowledge, fostering collaborations, and discussing the latest advances in acoustic manipulation – in peaceful and beautiful surroundings.
Victoria Hutterer’s paper is selected as part of 2023 special IOPscience celebratory collection
We are pleased to announce that the paper A mathematical framework for nonlinear wavefront reconstruction in adaptive optics systems with Fourier-type wavefront sensing, co-authored by our SFB member, Victoria Hutterer, together with Andreas Neubauer and Julia Shatokhina, has been selected to be part of the special celebratory collections of articles published in 2023 by researchers in Austria. This achievement highlights the cutting-edge research of the subproject Tomography in Astronomy – Adaptive Optics led by prof. Ronny Ramlau.