Latest updates:
March 2026:
Exciting news — our latest paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Biophotonics! Check out this Graphic Abstract: DOI to the full paper will follow soon 
February 2026:
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to present at the Cologne AI Days, hosted by the Cologne Data Science community. It was a stimulating event bringing together researchers from across disciplines. It was a wonderful setting to share our work on AI-assisted label-free imaging and connect with the broader machine learning community. 
June 2025:
I joined the Humboldt Center for Nano- and Biophotonics as a part-time researcher. Did you know you could integrate microlasers into living cells? I love learning about this fascinating topic, while contributing my expertise in in vivo Biophotonics and Computational Optics. Excited to see where this collaboration leads!
May 2025:
I had the pleasure of presenting our work as an ePoster at Digestive Disease Week 2025, one of the largest gatherings in gastroenterology. The poster covered our latest progress towards AI-assisted, all-optical assessment of IBD classification — a great opportunity to connect with the clinical community and share how label-free imaging and deep learning can contribute to inflammatory bowel disease research. The abstract is also available here.
I also attended the SLAS Europe 2025 in Hamburg, Germany, where I presented our work as a poster. It was a great chance to engage with the laboratory automation and screening community and explore how label-free imaging and AI-based analysis can fit into high-throughput research workflows.
Januar 2025:
Back at SPIE Photonics West, back in SF. This time, I followed up on last year’s talk and presented the latest updated on the MICS project in my talk ‘Classification of inflammatory tissue remodeling in murine colitis using label-free multiphoton microscopy and a 3D convolutional neural network’. Again, I uploaded a short video version of that talk here! 
August 2024:
In late August, UC Davis’ brand-new Assistant Professor Alba Alfonso Garcia invited me to give a talk on ‘Label-free Multiphoton Imaging for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases’ at the Biophotonics Seminar. Thanks for having me, Alba! It was great to discuss and catch up.
The timing was also great, since I took the train from Davis down to SF just a few days later to attend the GAIN24, which is the annual conference and talent fair of the German Academic International Networkthe German Academic International Network.
June 2024:
I had the great opportunity to present our work on Computational Specificity for Label-free Imaging in a selected talk at last week’s Duke AI Day. It was great to receive such positive feedback and discuss with you all at my Poster afterwards! 
Januar 2024:
Happy to have presented the first results of the MICS project at this years’s SPIE Photonics West 2024. Hopefully it will be the stepping stone towards an application of label-free imaging and deep learning in research on inflammation. A short version of that talk can be viewed here! 
October 2023:
We are happy that our review on digital staining in optical microscopy has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘PhotoniX’. It is a great read, if you want to know more about digital staining and how it is used for the state-of-the-art for optical microscopy. It is also the first publication from the MICS project. The link to the full article is here!
August 2023:
The novel Self-Enhancing Multi-Photon Artificial Intelligence (SEMPAI), from Alexander Mühlberg, a collaborator of this MICS project, has been published in ‘Advanced Science’. Check it out here!