Barbara Priwitzer is the head of the research group. Her main interest is in application of machine learning methods for the evaluation of complex data as well as in preprocessing data using statistical and mathematical techniques.

Barbara Priwitzer studied mathematics at the universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Moscow, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Tübingen and at Leipzig university. Professional experience includes editorial work at Birkhäuser Publishing house in Basel, software engineering at the data mining company Pattern Expert in Borsdorf/ Saxonia and teaching at Bath university. In 2007 Barbara Priwitzer joined the computer science department at Hochschule Lausitz (FH) in Senftenberg. She holds a Ph. D. in mathematics from Eberhard-Karls university in Tübingen.

Kerstin Lenk is currently working on her doctoral dissertation within the project. She is analyzing MEA data using concentration-response curves (CRC) and a simulation. CRCs are widely used to examine the effect of neuro-active substances. Beside sigmoid curve progression also multiphasic shapes are observed which indicate different response mechanisms. Currently there is no gold standard for calculating multiphasic CRCs automatically. The first main field of the project is to find adequate methods to fit CRCs . The second main topic is the simulation of inhibitory and excitatory synapses of a neuronal network. By varying the weights of the phenomenological model CRCs will be simulated.

Kerstin Lenk studied computer science with focus on medicine and healthcare at the Hochschule Lausitz (FH). In 2009 she wrote her Diploma thesis at the King’s College with the title ‘Use of image processing techniques for dyssynchrony analysis on MR ventricular volumetric data in Tetralogy of Fallot’. In the same year she got the opportunity to give an oral presentation at the 41st annual meeting of the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology in Weimar, Germany.

She is a mentor for the e-mentoring program ‘CyberMentor’ for girls who are interested in the fields math, computer science, natural sciences and engineering.

Member of the Research group.

Member of the Research group.

• Jonathan Philipps
• B.Sc. Kevin Volland
• M.Sc. Martin Tangermann
• M.Sc. Stefan Dornbrach