alumni
The SURGiC alumni have a wide variety of backgrounds.
Kyriakos Spartalis
Research Assistant
Kyriakos is a Research Assistant with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. His responsibilities include assisting with 3D ultrasound scans during surgeries and providing technical support to the team.
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Jacob Lund-Andersen
Medical Doctor
Jacob is working on an ad-hoc research project analysing data on COVID-19 testing, with the goal of identifying important learnings from the vast amount of data on testing collected by the research group during the pandemic.
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Márta Menta Czinkóczky
Research Assistant
Márta has a Bachelor's degree in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Trinity College Dublin and a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen. She is involved in the clinical research focused on biomarker discovery within the team.
Theresa Dahl Frehr
Research Assistant
Theresa is pursuing her Master's degree in Mathematical Modelling and Computation with a focus on medical image analysis at DTU. She is involved in the technical and clinical research within the team.
Magnus Ahasverusen
BEng Healthcare Technology, Student
Magnus is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Technology. He is currently writing his thesis, focusing on enhancing interaction in surgical assessment workflows in 3D ultrasound.​
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Joachim Kjelde
Medical Student
Joachim is a Medical Student doing a research year as part of his Master's degree. He is conducting a study on freehand ultrasound to improve the diagnostic workup of lymph nodes in cases of head and neck cancer.​
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joachim.bugge.thestrup.kjelde.01@regionh.dk​​
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Nikolaj Severin Stæhr Hertz
Research Assistant
Nikolaj is studying Mathematical Modelling and Computation at DTU, with a strong interest in the newest developments in AI. Currently, he's working on building a 3D segmentation model for ultrasound volumes, while also assisting on other related projects.
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Katarina Deborah Nielsen
Communications Student
Katarina is a Communications Assistant pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Rhetoric. She supports communication tasks through social media and manages the SURGiC website.
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Leila Eslami
Research assistant
Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering
Michael Parker
Intern
BEng in Healthcare Technology (Biomedical Engineering)
Alban Dalifi
Intern
BEng in Healthcare Technology (Biomedical Engineering)
Omid Ghaffari
Intern
BEng in Healthcare Technology (Biomedical Engineering)