Director, Heidelberg University Computing Centre
Head of Research Group
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
Head of Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab (EMCL)
SCIENTIFIC VITA
| 1997 | Ph.D. in Computer Science |
| 2002 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Mathematics |
| 1997 – 2002 | Research Assistant IWR, Heidelberg University |
| 2003 | Deputy Professor for Applied Mathematics University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2004 – 2009 | Vice Director Steinbruch Center for Computing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 2009 – 2013 | Director Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab EMCL , Heidelberg University |
| 2004 – 2013 | Professor for Numerical Simulation, Optimization and High Performance Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 2013 – present | Director Heidelberg University Computing Centre |
| 2013 – present | Head of Research Group “Data Mining and Uncertainty Quantification” Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) |
| 2013 – present | Professor, Head of Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab (EMCL), Heidelberg University |
AWARDS
| 1999 | Leslie Fox Prize Dundee, UK |
| 2009 | International Innovation Award by the Itanium Solution Alliance Category: Humanitarian Impact San Francisco, USA |
| 2016 | International SIGEST Award for contribution in “Data Mining and Uncertainty Quantification” |
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION
| 2004 – 2009 | Board of Directors Höchstleistungsrechner für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft Betriebsgesellschaft mbH |
| 2005 – 2007 | Head of Scientific and Advisory Board of the Shosholoza Team (Team South Africa), Americas´Cup |
| 2011 – 2012 | Head of the CUDA Research Center Karlsruhe |
| Since 2013 | Scientific Advisory Board Deutsch-Französische Hochschule |
| Since 2017 | Scientific Advisory Board Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| Since 2018 | Co-Coordinator “Informatics for Life” |
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Nicolai Schoch, Vincent Heuveline. “Towards Cognition-Guided Patient-Specific FEM-based Cardiac Surgery Simulation”. Accepted for the Proceedings of the Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH) 2017, as part of Springer’s LNCS, 2017.
Nicolai Schoch, Stefanie Speidel, York Sure-Vetter, Vincent Heuveline. “Towards Semantic Simulation for Patient- Specific Surgery Assistance”. Online-Proceedings of the Surgical Data Science International Workshop SDS 2016, 2016.
Nicolai Schoch, Fabian Kißler, Markus Stoll, Sandy Engelhardt, Raffaele de Simone, Ivo Wolf, Rolf Bendl, Vincent Heuveline. “Comprehensive patient-specific information preprocessing for cardiac surgery simulations”. Published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), Special Issue: IPCAI2016, (DOI: 10.1007/s11548-016-1397-0), 2016.
Nicolai Schoch, Patrick Philipp, Tobias Weller, Sandy Engelhardt, Mykola Volovyk, Andreas Fetzer, Marco Nolden, Raffaele De Simone, Ivo Wolf, Maria Maleshkova, Achim Rettinger, Rudi Studer, and Vincent Heuveline. “Cognitive tools pipeline for assistance of mitral valve surgery”. Proceedings of “SPIE. Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions and Modeling”, 2016.
Andreas Fetzer, Jasmin Metzger, Darko Katic, Keno Maerz, Martin Wagner, Patrick Philipp, Sandy Engelhardt, Tobias Weller, Sascha Zelzer, Alfred Michael Franz, Nicolai Schoch, Vincent Heuveline, Maria Maleshkova, Achim Rettinger, Stefanie Speidel, Ivo Wolf, Hannes Kenngott, Arianeb Mehrabi, Beat Mueller-Stich, Lena Maier-Hein, Hans-Peter Mein- zer, and Marco Nolden. “Towards an open-source semantic data infrastructure for integrating clinical and scientific data in cognition-guided surgery”. Proceedings of “SPIE. Medical Imaging 2016: PACS and Imaging Informatics: Next Gener- ation and Innovations”, 2016.