Artificial Intelligence fascinated the medicine graduate during his studies. This fascination remained even after he graduated: today, Dr. Johannes Karg conducts research at the Fraunhofer IKS on a wide range of applications for AI in medicine.

Lena Heidemann has been part of the Fraunhofer IKS since November 2020. She initially joined the institute as a student assistant. Since November 2021, she has been a research engineer in the Industrial Sensing Systems department. Her curiosity, openness and willingness to simply try out new things led her to research.

Dr. Katie Fitch has been head of the department Trustworthy Digital Health at Fraunhofer IKS since November 2024. Katie's enthusiasm for mathematics led her to the engineering section early on. Then she discovered medical AI research for herself.

At Fraunhofer IKS, people from a wide variety of countries work on solving complex tasks: Currently we have colleagues from more than 20 different nations. We asked three of them about their experiences of living and working in Germany.

As a researcher at Fraunhofer IKS, and participant in the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program, João-Vitor Zacchi focuses on safe perception for autonomous driving. He grew up in Brazil and lived in France before he moved to Munich. Part 14 of our employee portrait series.

As head of the Business Development group, Anna Guderitz leads a team that liaises between science and industry. In part eight of our employee profile series, she explains what particularly appeals to her about her role.

Andreas Kreutz, research engineer at Fraunhofer IKS, likes breaking new ground — both in his research and in his spare time. Part seven of our employee profile series.

Poulami Sinhamahapatra doesn’t just work on new developments at Fraunhofer IKS – in her free time she also writes poetry and blog posts in English and Hindi. She was inspired to enter the worlds of art and research by reading science fiction books. Part 4 of our employee portraits series.