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
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.
Dr. Katie Fitch
Scientific Project Manager & Deep Learning Engineer
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 Bernard
COO & Co-Founder
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.
Jeffrey Jedele
Head of Software Development
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.
Anja Roepling
Usability & Risk Engineer
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.
Angelos Theocharis
Medical Engineer
Angelos is responsible for our risk management, in charge of identifying, assessing and controlling risks related to our product.
Lorena Leguizamon
Medical Engineer
Lorena is a dedicated engineer, whose attention to detail keeps our product and process quality assurance activities on track.
Andreas Iakobou
Software Engineer
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
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David Luksic
Software Engineer
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.
Dhaval Shah
Software Engineer & Tester
Dhaval develops cutting edge software technology to tackle unsolved clinical challenges. He never lets a bug slip during our verification and testing rounds.
Raluca Barna
Clinical Research Working Student
Raluca supports our clinical research team. She's studying Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics (MSc) at the Technical University of Munich.
Edward Plugge
Marketing Manager
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.
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.
