Team

Leadership
Victor Staartjes, MD, PhD	Group Leader	Scholar/PubMed
Prof. Carlo Serra, MD	Co-Group Leader	Scholar/PubMed
Prof. Luca Regli, MD	Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery	Scholar/PubMed

Senior Lab Members
Olivier Zanier, MD	Lead, Synthetic Imaging	Scholar/PubMed
Raffaele Da Mutten, MD	Lead, Segmentation	Scholar/PubMed
Massimo Bottini, BMed	Deputy Lead, Synthetic Imaging	PubMed
Daniel de Wilde, BMed	Research Fellow	PubMed
Aron Alakmeh, BMed	Research Fellow	PubMed
Sven Theiler, MD	Doctoral Student	PubMed
Vittorio Stumpo, MD	Doctoral Student	Scholar/PubMed
Vittorio Ricciuti, MD	AENEAS Fellow	PubMed
Grazia Menna, MD	SINCH Fellow	PubMed
Alice Alonso Dubost	Research Fellow

Junior Lab Members
Michelle Poelman	Research Fellow
Kym Ackermann	Master Student
Amelia Elaine Cannon	Research Fellow
Mateo Tomas Farina Nunez, MD	Research Fellow
Kenneth Arockia	Research Fellow
Istiak Khan	Visiting Research Fellow
Aditya Dave	Research Fellow
Nico Winterberger	Research Fellow
Gianluca Quiram	Research Fellow
Livia Näpfer	Research Fellow
Viviane Gerber	Research Fellow
Zehra Nazar	Research Fellow
Benjamin Beygi	Research Fellow
Ahmed Haydar Sameer	Research Fellow
Murhaf Yeyha	Research Fellow
Kristina Nikosjkov	Research Fellow

Lab Affiliates
Adrian Elmi-Terander	Lab Affiliate
Erik Edström	Lab Affiliate
Victor Gabriel El-Hajj, MD	Lab Affiliate
Prof. Tristan van Doormaal, MD, PhD	Lab Affiliate	Scholar/PubMed
Bas van Niftrik, MD, PhD	Lab Affiliate	Scholar/PubMed
Stefanos Voglis, MD	Lab Affiliate	PubMed
Flavio Vasella, MD, PhD	Lab Affiliate
Benjamin Beyersdorf, MD	Lab Affiliate

Lab Alumni
Luca Zanuttini, MD	Research Fellow / AENEAS Fellow	PubMed
Simone Olei, MD	Research Fellow / AENEAS Fellow	PubMed
Alessandro Carretta, MD	Research Fellow / AENEAS Fellow	PubMed
Amedeo Piazza, MD	Research Fellow / SINCH Fellow	PubMed
Elena Sorba, MD	Doctoral Student	PubMed
Elisa Hornung, BMed	Master Student	PubMed
Flavia Gericke	Research Fellow	PubMed
Nicole Heeb, BMed	Research Fellow	PubMed
Moira Vieli, BMed	Doctoral Student	PubMed
Olga Ciobanu-Caraus, MD	Research Fellow	PubMed
Benjamin Schärli, BMed	Research Fellow
Albert Quinn Schmidt, BSc	Research Fellow
Nicole Delgado, MD	Research Fellow
Inka Berglar, BMed	Research Fellow

Member & Alumni Destinations

Current and former lab members have advanced in diverse fields, including academia, research, and healthcare. Notable engagements include:

• Neurosurgical residents and consultants in departments across Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Italy

• Graduate programs at institutions such as the University of Oxford

• Research roles and internships at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm), Stanford School of Medicine, and the Hospital for Special Surgery (New York)

We are proud to support members as they contribute to a range of fields during and beyond their time in the lab.

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