Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Röhrl on receiving the 2025 Johannes B. Ortner Prize for his outstanding dissertation, A Transparent View on Machine Learning for Holographic Cytology .
His award-winning work makes an important contribution at the intersection of machine learning and holographic cytology. As part of the research, the CellFace in vitro diagnostics platform was co-developed and refined at the Technical University of Munich. A notable milestone was the first characterization of platelet microaggregates as prognostic biomarkers during the pandemic, which has significant implications for the prognosis of severe disease progression.
We are especially pleased that Dr. Christian Klenk (Chair of Biomedical Electronics) presented the award jointly with Dr. Röhrl. Dr. Klenk is a longtime research colleague and personal friend of Dr. Röhrl. They jointly led the CellFACE research project.
We would like to thank Prof. Klaus Diepold or his excellent supervision and Prof. Oliver Hayden for nominating the dissertation for the Johannes B. Ortner Prize.
The prize was presented at the TUM Award Dinner held at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. Since 2005, the Johannes B. Ortner Foundation has awarded this prize annually to recognize outstanding work by early-career researchers in the natural sciences and engineering.
TUM Awards Dinner 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXLETi5Zho