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.
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/
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.
PhD defense: Mia Kvåle Løvmo
We are pleased to announce that Mia Kvåle Løvmo, PhD student in the Subproject Imaging of Trapped Particles, defended her PhD thesis with the title “Rotational manipulation of trapped biological samples in acoustofluidic platforms for tomography” on 10 July 2024, and passed with distinction.
Mia’s doctoral study was supervised by Monika Ritsch-Marte, the principal investigator of the Subproject Imaging of Trapped Particles and the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck. Congratulations from the SFB colleagues!
16th SFB Internal Meeting in Strobl
From 1 to 5 July, the 16th SFB internal meeting took place at a beautiful venue of Lake Wolfgangsee in Strobl. This annual summer meeting offers SFB members a valuable opportunity to share recent progress in the eight different projects and discuss future research directions. We were honored to host three internationally renowned professors as invited speakers – Markus Grasmair, John Schotland, and Ivo Ihrke – as well as early-career researchers Andrea Aspri and Alina Boecker. Researchers and PhD students from Austrian institutions of excellence (RICAM, University of Vienna) and Germany also participated in the meeting.
During the event, we celebrated the 60th birthday of the SFB Speaker, Professor Otmar Scherzer.
Professor Otmar Scherzer is an internationally recognized mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics, particularly in the fields of inverse problems, imaging, and numerical analysis. He has received numerous awards, including the Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society in 1998 and the START-Prize from the Austria Science Fund (FWF). He will also be an invited speaker at the Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) Conference in Brazil in 2025.
Mia Kvåle Lømvo received the Best Scientific Paper Award 2024
We are pleased to announce that our SFB member, Mia Kvåle Lømvo, received the Best Scientific Paper Award 2024 of the PhD Programme Image-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy at the Life Science PhD Meeting Innsbruck in April 2024.
This award recognizes Mia’s significant contribution to the paper “Ultrasound-induced reorientation for multi-angle optical coherence tomography” recently published in Nature Communications with Shiyu Deng, Simon Moser, Rainer Leitgeb, Wolfgang Drexler, and Monika Ritsch-Marte.
SFB goes to the 11th IPMS 2024
Two of our SFB members, Peter Elbau and Otmar Scherzer, together with team members from the Computational Science Center (CSC) of the University of Vienna and the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (Ricam), Linz, attended the 11th International Conference “Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation” (IPMS 2024) in Malta as invited speakers to mini-symposia. The conference, one of the most prominent in the field, aims to bring together scientists working on inverse problems with different areas of expertise, such as mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, medicine, and material science to provide a fruitful ground for discussion on the latest advances in theory and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
