PD Dr. med. · Radiologist · Augsburg, Germany
I am a radiologist and clinical scientist working on sex- and gender-sensitive imaging. My research asks whether imaging works equally well for women and men, and what has to change where it does not.
Managing senior consultant (geschäftsführender Oberarzt) in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology at University Hospital Augsburg, and Assistant Professor (Privatdozent) at the University of Augsburg.
About 100 papers since 2014 · h-index 20 (OpenAlex) · Board member, AGIT (German Roentgen Society)
01 Research
Most of my projects start in clinical routine, with a protocol or a threshold that everyone uses and nobody has checked by sex. A few of them grow into trials.
Together they form one programme on sex- and gender-sensitive imaging, from the iodine dose of a single scan to the statistics of an entire health system.
Iodinated contrast is dosed by body weight, or not adjusted at all. Women have less blood volume per kilogram, so the same protocol leaves more iodine in each millilitre of their blood. In 274 staging CT scans, enhancement of vessels and organs was significantly higher in women, and sex remained a factor after adjustment for body size and blood volume.
Key paper: Eur Radiol 2025Photon-counting detectors register single X-ray photons together with their energy. Since the first clinical systems arrived in 2021, our group has tested what this changes in practice: low-dose abdominal CT with less noise, sharper stent lumens, haemoglobin read from a routine contrast scan to detect anaemia, and fewer follow-up tests in a cost model for coronary CT.
Key paper: Radiology 2022Germany's DRG statistics record almost every inpatient stay. I use them to follow how the care of peripheral artery disease, mesenteric ischaemia, diverticulitis or uterine fibroids has shifted over the years. The largest analysis so far covers 166.7 million cases and asks whether standard comorbidity scores predict in-hospital death equally well for women and men.
Key paper: medRxiv 2026, preprintAlgorithms reach radiology faster than the evidence for them. I care less about the next model than about how it is tested: reader studies under routine conditions, with results broken down by subgroup. As a co-opted board member of AGIT, the working group on information technology of the German Roentgen Society, I also work on reports that machines can read.
Key paper: J Thorac Imaging 202402 Projects
Two of them are open as interactive pages. The underlying data is public; the work was in tracing it back to its sources and checking every number.
A single-centre randomised trial on a photon-counting CT scanner compares weight-based with blood-volume-based iodine dosing in staging CT. The goal is equal image quality for women and men, with less contrast wherever less is enough. Recruitment closed in 2025 and the results are under review. Funded by the Margarete Ammon Foundation.
Radiology runs on cut-offs: the aortic diameter that triggers repair, the nodule size that triggers follow-up. I traced 1,401 numeric thresholds from current guidelines back to the studies they came from. Of 111 absolute values with a verifiable source, 101 were never analysed separately for women and men.
Women account for 49% of all inpatient procedures in German hospitals, but for only 34% of cardiac MRI scans. The page breaks down 14 imaging and interventional procedures by sex and age group, based on federal statistics for 2024.
Comorbidity scores such as the Charlson index use one formula for everyone. In 166.7 million adult inpatient cases from German hospitals between 2010 and 2024, we tested whether they are equally well calibrated in women and men. The analysis plan was fixed before any aggregated data existed.
03 Publications
About 100 publications since 2014; OpenAlex counts 99 works and an h-index of 20 (October 2026). The list below comes from Europe PMC, which covers PubMed-indexed papers and preprints, and links to every paper. Further profiles: Google Scholar, ORCID.
74 papers listed in Europe PMC, 18 as first author and 20 as last author.
04 Profile
I am a board-certified radiologist and completed my habilitation at the University of Augsburg in 2024. My clinical work covers the whole range of a university radiology department, from interventions to on-call duty; my research time goes into the questions above.
My cardiac CT work also draws on a long-standing collaboration with the Division of Cardiovascular Imaging at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Co-opted board member of AGIT, the working group on information technology of the German Roentgen Society (DRG)
Member of the DRG, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the German Society of Gender and Sex-Specific Medicine (DGesGM)
2023Reviewer of the Year, European Radiology, for reviews in 2022
2022Young Investigator Award, German Roentgen Society
05 Contact
For research collaborations, funding and industry partnerships or invitations to speak, write to me directly. I read and answer every message myself.
Augsburg, Germany