Meet the Team
Julian Praceus
CEO & Co-Founder
Julian founded LARALAB and built a dedicated team and network that shares the passion for breaking new ground in cardiac imaging and the treatment of heart valve diseases.
Aleksei Vasilev
Product Manager & Co-Founder
Scientific Project Manager & Deep Learning Engineer
Dr. Katie Fitch
Katie is creating the image-based planning of tomorrow together with our clinical partners, tailored to their ideas. She holds a PhD from Princeton and previously worked as a postdoc at TU Munich.
Alex ventures beyond the imaginable and creates automated CT-based assessments, surpassing what is possible in clinics today. He works closely with imaging experts to integrate their knowledge.
COO & Co-Founder
Julian Bernard
Julian is LARALAB’s key driver to build medical software that fulfills the highest quality standards according to ISO 13485, MDR and FDA. He initiates and leads projects with innovative medical technology companies
Lachana Hada
Medical & Software Engineer
Lachana is passionate about realising cloud based software tailored for interdisciplinary heart teams, and interactive collaboration.
Clinical Affairs & Digitalization Manager
Lennart Nies
Lennart is the expert when it comes to introducing innovative structural heart software. He’s a marathon runner that manages our clinical research projects and lays the groundwork for routine use of our powerful platform.
Usability & Risk Engineer
Anja Roepling
Anja anticipates and eliminates risk before our heart teams even identify it. She tests usability concepts continuously with our clinical partners. Prior to LARALAB, Anja released neuro navigation systems for Brainlab.
Head of Software Development
Jeffrey Jedele
Jeff develops extremely secure cloud infrastructure, as he did before at IBM. He makes sure you never notice the intense processing behind our powerful algorithms.
Lorena Leguizamon
Lorena is a dedicated engineer, whose attention to detail keeps our product and process quality assurance activities on track.
Medical Engineer
Software Engineer
Andreas Iakobou
Andy, our allrounder, goes the extra mile to perfectly integrate our software with our clinical partners systems.
Mirac Sanisoglu
Software & Deep Learning Engineer
Mirac is always hunting for challenging morphologies. He is dedicated to training our deep learning algorithms to robustly reconstruct abnormalities in CTs.
Sarah Valderrama
Regulatory Affairs & Quality Specialist
Sarah is our key quality and regulatory specialist. As a passionate and experienced biomedical engineer, she ensures our products fulfil the highest regulatory requirements.
Software Engineer
David Luksic
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David is integrating cutting-edge DICOM visualisation tools for case planning into the heart.ai platform. He is originally from Croatia.
Katharina Brandt
Operations & HR Manager
Katharina’s operational support and office management ensures we have everything at our disposal to focus our team’s strengths towards building better products for the physicians, researchers & companies that use them.
Software Engineer & Tester
Dhaval Shah
Dhaval develops cutting edge software technology to tackle unsolved clinical challenges. He never lets a bug slip during our verification and testing rounds.
Angelos Theocharis
Medical Engineer
Angelos is responsible for our risk management, in charge of identifying, assessing and controlling risks related to our product.
Marketing Manager
Edward Plugge
Edward follows the latest developments, publications and conferences in the structural heart field. You may meet him at our next conference!
Lap Shun Yu
Cybersecurity Working Student
Lap Shun works to uncover and fix security vulnerabilities in our software, helping to keep our user’s confidential information safe and secure.
Gloria Müller
Finance & Clinical Research Working Student
Gloria supports projects with our research partners who are using heart.ai to open new avenues for research in advanced cardiac imaging. She’s studying Applied and Engineering Physics at the Technical University of Munich.
Daniela Schneider
User Interface Designer
Daniela provides strategic design solutions and assists in creating the overall design style guide to create a consistent and intuitive user interface.
UI / UX Working Student
Rashed Hasan
Rashed helps ensure our user interface is intuitive and streamlined. He is pursuing his Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at Universität Siegen.
Clinical Research
Working Student
Raluca Barna
Raluca supports our clinical research team. She's studying Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics (MSc) at the Technical University of Munich.
Our Secret Boss
Karlo
Karlo secretly controls the whole show and ensures everything is running just as he wants it to.
Workplace Productivity Supporter
Macchiato
Macchiato occasionally patrols the LARALAB headquarters in search of team members, who he likes to check in on.