Meet our team
We are a deeptech AI company obsessed with solving cytometry and thereby make an outsized and lasting impact on immune medicine: we want to make sure every patient gets the right treatment at the right time for their unique immune systems.
Dr. Karsten Miermans
Karsten is our in-house generalist with a background in biophysics, software development, data science and education. It's Karsten's mission is to transform our technology into value for hema.to's users.
Felix Kunzweiler
Felix is a full-stack developer and data scientist with a M.Sc. in physics. Having deployed many (AI) applications into production, Felix has gathered a deep understanding of the development of cloud applications and AI-based web services. Felix establishes our technical vision and leads the development of our products.
Dr. Franz Elsner
Being an astrophysicist by training, Franz has worked as a cosmologist at various research institutes across Europe. He has developed a multitude of novel approaches for data analyses and is an expert in Artificial Intelligence, statistics, and programming. Franz ensures that our AI models are of the utmost quality.
Dr. Hannes Lüling
After his research in computational neuroscience, Hannes has worked for several DAX companies in data science. Being managing director in startups since 2016, Hannes kept that role at hema.to and supports innovation and large-scale strategizing.
Prof. Dr. João Moura Alves
João is a Biochemist with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and a passion for Immunology with 20 years of cytometry experience. João uses his deep expertise in cytometry data analysis to help improve hema.to's algorithms.
Dr. Martin Becker
Martin has many years of experience in the fields of immunology and cytometry and supports these areas as Senior Scientist Immunology & Cytometry.
Artur Toloknieiev
As a medical student and technology aficionado, Artur adds clinical understanding of haematological diseases as well as experience in medical data annotation, analysis, and presentation, providing a professional’s insight into the matters at hand and helping us ensure our solutions are tailored to the needs of our clients.
Dr. Aleks Mężydło
Aleks has an extensive background in neuro-immunology and developing advanced screening tools. She leads clinical evidences, studies, performance evaluations and the biomedical team.
Lara Rashdan
Lara is an experienced RA/QA specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the Medtech industry, most specifically in startups. Skilled in technical documentation, identifying regulatory and quality requirements and international regulatory submission.
Felix Spöttel
Felix is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in building web applications. Felix supports engineering across the entire stack.
Atheer Ali M. Abdullatif
Atheer is very experienced within the healthcare sector and supports us with her knowledge in data engineering, Infrastructure and interfaces.
Dr. Florian Pfisterer
Florian is a statistician by training, having completed a MSc. and PhD in Statistics. During his PhD, Florian conducted research in machine learning with a focus on automated machine learning, optimization, domain generalization and algorithmic fairness.
Shipra Shalini
Shipra has over a dozen years of industry experience in backend and devOps. Shipra is working on our cytometry backend architecture, in part to make sure its available to diagnosticians 24/7 with snappy response time.
Dr. Tim Adler
Tim has a background in mathematics, physics and computer science. He has completed his PhD in machine learning applied to oncology at the DKFZ German Cancer Research Center. Tim works on expanding the scope of hema.to's supervised ML models.
Dr. J. Michael Burgess
Michael has many years of experience in building large frameworks for statistical analysis as an astrophysicist at the Max-Planck Institute, where he's worked extensively with Björn and Felix. Michael develops algorithms to reduce cytometry variability.
Dr. Björn Biltzinger
Björn has been building large pipelines and frameworks for data analysis at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics for years. He uses his skills in data & MLOps engineering to more quickly serve new customers.
Younhee Park
Having spent years working as a nurse in South Korea and as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK, she has developed a unique perspective on healthcare needs. Since transitioning to software engineering in 2020, she has combined this insight with her technical skills as a Frontend Engineer and UI Designer at hema.to.
Dr. Alexander Trende
Alexander has a PhD in computer science and combined 6 years of experience in the research and development of machine learning (ML) models. As a researcher, Alexander led and executed several research projects, leading to new insights for practitioners in the field of ML.
Olivier Poulin
With background in in biomedical science, Olivier is an accomplished leader with 15+ years of experience in managing commercial organisations in the field of anatomo-pathology and clinical biology. Olivier has 25 years of sales experience in healthcare, 8 years in marketing and a proven track-record of business development within Europe for innovative start-up companies.
Athina Chavli
Athina is a sales development representative at hema.to, starting and fostering relationships with labs and academic hospitals. Athina has a background in cytometry herself as part of her academic training in biotechnology and laboratory work on stem cells.
Daniel Moritz
Daniel is our interim CFO through his company Ingrain, in which he offers bespoke, CFO-as-a-service consulting.
Florian Kaußner
Florian oversees and manages operations and the back office. He has over seven years of experience in business & IT operations.
Marie Fleischmann
Holding a Master of Arts in Economics and Law, Marie expertly shapes our data privacy, HR regulations, HR and internationalisation strategies, including US incorporation in close collaboration with the management.
Dr. Magdalena Anna Leander Brandão
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Natalia Wlizlo
Natalia has a background in biomedical science and laboratory analyses and even flow cytometry at the Scottish transfusion service. She has worked for years as a compliance expert in pharma and works with Lara and Aleks to level-up our compliance processes and documentation.