Prof. Dr. Antje-Christin Knopf
Prof. Dr. Antje-Christin Knopf
Activities at the FHNW
- Team Leader, Medical Image Processing
- Teaching modules on medical image processing and medical physics in the following programs:
- BSc medical informatics
- BSc medical engineering
- Joint MSc biomedical engineering
- MSc medical informatics
Research
Medical Image Processing; Medical Physics and Radiotherapy
Profile
- since 2022: Professor for Medical image processing at the FHNW School of Life Sciences
- since 2024: Guest Scientist at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University Dresden, Germany
- 2022 - 2023: Guest Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland
- 2020 - 2022: EMBA student at RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands and University of Cologne Business School, Germany, Title: Innovation potential for project management practice at public, academic healthcare institutions (University Hospitals) in Germany with a focus on empowerment
- 2020 - 2022: Scientific Project Manager Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen (CCCE), University Hospital Cologne, Germany
- 2019 - 2020: Guest Professor Carl von Ossietzky Universität (UOL), Oldenburg, Germany
- 2016 - 2020: Associate Professor (IUS Promovendi since 2018) University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Netherlands
- 2015: three months visiting research fellow at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Netherlands
- 2013 - 2016: PostDoc at the Institut of Cancer Research (ICR), UK
- 2012 - 2013: Research assistant 50% Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) / 50% Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland
- 2009 - 2012: PostDoc at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland
- 2005 - 2009: PhD student at the Deutsche Krebsforschungs Zentrum (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany, carried out at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Title: PET/CT imaging for proton treatment verification
- 2003 - 2005: MSc Medical Physics student at the Ruperto Carola University, Heidelberg, Germany / University Hospital Mannheim, Germany, carried out at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) /Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Title: Analysis of dose distributions: a comparison between the calculation programs Geant4 and KonRad
- 2003 - 2004: Erasmus exchange student at the University Uppsala, Sweden
- 2000 - 2005: MSc Physics student at the Ruperto Carola University, Heidelberg, Germany, Title: Verification of Monte Carlo simulated dose distributions
- Member of the European real-time adaptive proton therapy for cancer patients (RAPTOR) consortium.
- Associate Editor of the scientific journal Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics (EJMP), 2019-2020.
- Scientific advisory board member of the Haukeland University Hospital particle therapy research project, Bergen, Norway 2019-2022.
- Frequent reviewer for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics, the Radiotherapy and Oncology Journal, the Medical Physics Journal and the Physics in Medicine and Biology Journal.
- Initiator and Organizer (till 2020) of the annual international 4D Treatment Planning Workshop since 2009.
- Member of the European Particle Therapy Network (EPTN).
- Frequent external committee member for PhD defenses.
- Member of the organizing committee of the MICCAI satellite event: Imaging and Computer Assistance in Radiation Therapy Workshop 2015.
- 2020: Women in Leadership Scholarship, Cologne-Rotterdam EMBA program.
2013: Dean's Pathway to Independence Award, The Institute of Cancer Research(ICR). - 2011: Varian Recognition Award, Swiss Society of Radiology and Medical Physics (SGSMP).
- 2008: ESTRO-Varian Research Award European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO).
- 2007: Young Investigators Award, 2nd place for an outstanding scientific paper presentation at the annual American Association of Physics in Medicine (AAPM) meeting.
Contact
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Prof. Dr. Antje-Christin Knopf
- Team leader and professor
- Telephone
- +41 61 228 62 24 (direct)
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- School of Life Sciences FHNW
Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Hofackerstrasse 30
4132 Muttenz
Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Life Sciences,
Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Hofackerstrasse 30
CH - 4132 Muttenz
- Telephone
- +41 61 228 54 19
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