Meet the Team
Julian Praceus
CEO
Aleksei Vasilev
Head of Software Development
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Boris Link
Product Manager
Boris is only satisfied when our software workflow thoroughly fulfills the planning and decision making needs of the heart teams.
Medical Engineer
Cristina Rubio
Cris keeps the computers running hot in our automated core and test lab. Whether it's creating the most precise segmentations or intensively testing our software, Cris doesn't miss the slightest inaccuracy.
Cloud & Machine Learning Engineer
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.
Lisa Tsechanski
UX Engineer
Lisa works intensively with interventionalists and designs our elegant and easy-to-use workflows.
Nika Mendelev
Quality & Regulatory Affairs Manager
Nika is our key quality and regulatory expert. As an experienced and passionate quality engineer, she ensures our products fulfil the highest regulatory requirements.
Software & Deep Learning Engineer
Miraç Sanisoğlu
Mirac is always hunting for challenging morphologies. He is dedicated to training our deep learning algorithms to robustly reconstruct abnormalities in CTs.
Deborah Annerl
Human Resources Consultant
Business Associate & Recruiter
Glori Pérez
Glori strives to make the job application process at LARALAB as smooth as possible. She’ll be your first contact if you apply to join our growing team.
Deborah has a keen eye for hiring people and has a special flair for helping them develop their talent.
Andreas Iakobou
Software Engineer
Andy, our allrounder, goes the extra mile to perfectly integrate our software with our clinical partners systems.
Software Working Student
Dhaval Shah
Dhaval is head of our working student department. He develops cutting edge software technology to tackle unsolved clinical challenges.
Edward Plugge
Marketing Intern
Edward follows the latest developments, publications and conferences in the structural heart field. You may meet him at our next conference!
Our Secret Boss
Karlo
Karlo secretly controls the whole show and ensures everything is running just as he wants it to.