
Our Team
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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
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Dr. Katie Fitch
VP North America & Head of Algorithms
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.
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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
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Alex Vasilev
Chief Innovation Officer & 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.

Anja Roepling
Head of Frontend & UX

Jeffredy Jedele
Head of Software Platform

Angelos Theocharis
Head of Quality & Regulatory Affairs

Antje Blumhagen
Member of the Board & Financial Advisor
Antje is also onboard somehow

Dr. Peter Vorländer
Member of the Board & Strategic Advisor
Peter brings expertise to the team from a long career of..
Our Leadership

Lachana Hada
Senior Software Engineer
Lachana is passionate about realising cloud based software tailored for interdisciplinary heart teams, and interactive collaboration

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 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

David Luksic
Technical Lead Front-End
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 we need to focus on building better products for the physicians, researchers & companies that use them

Dhaval Shah
Software Engineer
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
Medical Imaging Engineer
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!

Dr. Anna Mira
Software Engineer Medical Algorithms
Anna's advanced work on tailored measurements is driven by lengthy experience in the private sector & academia, including at King’s College, London.

Gregor Wiese
Software and Research Engineer
Gregor’s work on advanced machine learning is targeting the improvement of our segmentation capabilities, and expanding what is possible with our automatic cardiac CT analysis

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

Vivien Hopf
Working Student Quality & Regulatory Affairs

Karlo
Our Secret Boss