Academic Background
- Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany — Master of Science: International Health (Sep 2024 – Sep 2025)
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany — Master of Science: Physics (Apr 2018 – Jan 2021). Focus on complex systems and biophysics.
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany — Bachelor of Science: Physics (Oct 2014 – Mar 2018)
- Research Associate — Section Oral Health, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg, Germany (Jan 2026 – Now)
- Hospital Strategy Consultant — Smartify IT Solutions, Munich, Germany (Apr 2023 – Aug 2024). Strategic consulting and project management in hospital digitization, including: program budget controlling for the digitalization of a hospital group; supporting the interim manager of IT operations of multiple German hospitals in developing his IT organization to deliver best results to the medical treatment process; formulating decision memos for higher management (incl. hospital directors or higher) of clients that resulted in positive decision making.
- Supervisor & Research Associate — working on the implementation of an MRI simulation of 3D complex flow using the Lattice Boltzmann Method, including co-supervision of bachelor and master thesis projects, development of new data acquisition techniques for the visualization of flow dynamics, and 3D printing and silicone molding.
- University and Research Associate — Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria (Oct 2021 – Feb 2023)
- Research Associate — Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (Mar 2021 – Sep 2021)
- Data Analyst & Consultant — Elaboratum GmbH, Munich, Germany (Sep 2019 – Oct 2019). Valuation of different machine learning platforms including the development of prototypes using these platforms. Support for customer consulting in the area of business start-ups.
Lecturer — Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria (SS 2022). Lecture (2 SWS) and Exercise (2 SWS): „Biological Control, Modeling and Simulation“ — part of the biomedical engineering master’s program.
ISMRM Educational Cash Stipend (two-time awardee), issued by the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB (May 2022 & Jun 2023)
Journal Paper
- Schulz A., Schellinger I., Backhaus S., Adler A., Lange T., Evertz R., Kowallick J., Hoffmann A., Matek C., Tsao P., Hasenfuß G., Raaz U., Schuster A. (2024). Association of Cardiac MRI-derived Aortic Stiffness with Early Stages and Progression of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. In Radiol. Cardiothorac Imaging (2024).
- Ma D., Wang Y., Azhar M., Adler A., Steinmetz M., Uecker M. (2022). In silico modeling for personal stenting in aortic coarctation. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 16:2056-2073 (2022).
Conference Abstracts
- Adler, A., Scholand N., Kollmeier J., Wang Y., Uecker M. (2023). MRI Simulations for Complex 3D Flow using the Lattice Boltzmann Method. ISMRM 2023. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 31; 4571 (2023).
- Schaten P., Azhar M., Adler A., Steinmetz M., Uecker M. (2022). Measurement of End-to-End latency in real-time MRI. ISMRM 2022. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 30; 2150 (2022).
- Adler A., Schaten P., Wang Y., Uecker M. (2022). 3D-Simulation of Flowing Spins using the Lattice Boltzmann Method with Maxwell Diffuse Reflection Boundaries. ISMRM 2022. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 30; 1227 (2022).
- Ma D., Wang Y., Azhar M., Adler A., Steinmetz M., Uecker M. (2021). Numerical modeling helps patient-specific stent implantation for aortic coarctation. Virtuelle DPG-Frühjahrstagung, Dortmund 2021, In Verhandlungen der Physikalischen Gesellschaft e.V.; ST 5.1 (2021).
- Adler A., Kollmeier J., Scholand N., Rosenzweig S., Wang Y., Uecker M. (2021). Simulation of Flowing Spins in MRI using the Lattice Boltzmann Method. ISMRM 2021. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 29; 2100 (2021).