Head of Infectious Diseases Imaging Platform (IDIP) at Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research (CIID), University of Heidelberg

Vibor obtained his PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany where he worked on automated microscopy setups for high-content screening approaches and their application in investigating diverse cellular processes. After the PhD he continued his research as a staff scientist at the EMBL where he operated at the interface between advanced light microscopy, robotics, chemical biology and cell biology. In 2013. he joined Department of Infectious Diseases (now Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research, CIID) in Heidelberg to establish the microscopy infrastructure under the enhanced biosafety conditions (BSL2 and BSL3) to enable microscopy-based research on infectious human pathogens. The developed BSL2/BSL3 microscopy infrastructure (called Infectious Diseases Imaging Platform (IDIP)) will be operational in early 2018. As head manager of IDIP he is mentoring the advanced light microscopy-based research projects in CIID and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). He has long experience in teaching various aspects of light microscopy technologies and digital image handling.

Head of Imaging Facility at Center of Molecular Biology (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg

Holger is a cell and molecular biologist educated at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich (LMU), Germany. After his graduation at the LMU, he did his postdoc research at the National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA, in Dr. J. Lippincott-Schwartz’s lab with a focus on advanced light microscopy of subcellular processes. In 2008, he joined the Center of Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg to set up a core facility for advanced imaging. He serves as head of the core facility to support researchers with light microscopy (up to superresolution) and image analysis/processing applications. Holger has a long track record of teaching digital image analysis to under- and postgraduates. His courses cover all aspects of image processing ranging from the use of existing analysis tools to goal-oriented software programming.

President at Research Elements Association and Managing director at Life Science Network gGmbH

Alen spent 10 years at EMBL in Heidelberg, first as PhD student, followed by a short postdoc and then as research scientist. His work was interdisciplinary and ranged from organic and peptide synthesis of molecular probes, to molecular and cell biology research and microscopy method development. He is one of the founders and managing director of Life Science Network gGmbH, a non-profit organisation working towards more efficient information and knowledge exchange in life sciences and since 2017 president of the Research Elements Association. Both organisations are dedicated to improving efficiency of scientific processes with use of innovative web-based tools and applications.