Karl-Heinz Höhne Award 2026

Picture of the award ceremony
Picture of the award ceremony
Picture of the award ceremony
© all three photographs: Tim Gerrits
  • Location

    Rostock

  • DATE

    16 September 2026

  • SPONSORED BY

    Brainlab AG

About the Event

We have awarded junior scientists whose work has contributed to advance research in medical diagnosis, planning, and intervention based on imaging techniques. The jury of academic experts was spoilt by the high quality submissions.

Award Winners

Visualisation by A. Schroeder
1st

Aaron Schroeder
University of Magdeburg

Advanced Visualization of Aortic Dissection Anatomy and Hemodynamics

DOI

Understanding Aortic Dissection Hemodynamics: Evaluating Adapted Smoke Surfaces Against Streakline-Based Techniques

DOI

Visualisation by A. Sterzik
2nd

Anna Sterzik
University of Leipzig

Uncertainty Visualization for Biomolecular Structures: An Empirical Evaluation

DOI

Evaluating the Perceptual Space of Surface Noise for Visualization

DOI

Visualisation by T. Peherstorfer
3rd

Tobias Peherstorfer
VRVis GmbH

Circuit Mining in Transcriptomics Data

DOI

Visual Query Strategies Across Brain Spaces

The jury 2026

  • Marc Baaden, CNRS, Paris
  • Daniel Baum, Zuse Institute Berlin
  • Stefan Bruckner (Chair), University of Rostock
  • Martin Eisemann, TU Braunschweig
  • Peter Eisert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Eduard Gröller, TU Wien
  • Ingrid Hotz, Linköping University
  • Jan Klein, Fraunhofer MEVIS
  • Torsten Kuhlen, RWTH Aachen University
  • Kai Lawonn, University of Leipzig
  • Lars Linsen, University of Münster
  • Monique Meuschke (Chair), University of Magdeburg
  • Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg
  • Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart
  • Felix Ritter, Fraunhofer MEVIS
  • Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig
  • Thomas Schultz, University of Bonn
  • Alexander Wiebel, University of Applied Sciences Worms

Acknowledgments

We thank the jury and all organisers for their thorough preparations.

We are also grateful to our sponsor, Brainlab AG, to endow all three winners with a sensible sum.

Finally, we thank all dilligent researchers for this year's contributions!

We are looking forward to the next competition in two years!