PhD
Open doctoral topics
Our department continuously offers doctoral projects for students of human medicine and dentistry. Current doctoral topics can be found on the Eportal. We also offer doctoral positions for graduates in the natural sciences - especially physics - and for engineers in the fields of biomedical engineering and optical metrology. In this way, we enable interdisciplinary research at the interface of medicine, physics and technology.
Current doctorates
| 2025- | Anh Johny Nguyen, Dr. med. dent. - Functional OCT imaging of the oral mucosa with histology-like contrast Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Günter Lauer) |
| 2025- | Miriam Sasse, Dr. rer. medic. - Optical coherence tomography for the detection of invasive carcinomas during surgery Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Günter Lauer) |
| 2025- | Christian Schmidt, Dr. rer. nat. Non-ionizing diagnostics of early interdental caries by fiber optic coherence tomography Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Polyclinic for Tooth Preservation with Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Prof. Dr. med. dent. Christian Hannig) |
| 2024- |
Johannes Rohr, Dr. med. dent. - |
| 2024- |
Johannes Reinhold, Dr. rer. nat. |
Completed doctorates
| 2022-2026 | Stella Hund, Dr. med. dent. - defended on 17.03.2026 Visualization of de- and remineralization processes on dental hard tissues with optical coherence tomography - an in-vitro study, Medical Faculty TUD, Coop. Polyclinic for Tooth Preservation with Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Prof. Dr. med. dent. Christian Hannig) - magna cum laude |
| 2020-2024 | Yuliia Gruda, Dr. med. dent. - defended on 12.11.2024 Optical coherence tomography for in vivo imaging of oral lichen planus, Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Günter Lauer) - magna cum laude |
| 2020-2024 | Julia Grundmann, Dr. med. dent. - defended on 16.04.2024 - Polarization optical examination of carious lesions, Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Polyclinic for Tooth Preservation with Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Prof. Dr. med. dent. Christian Hannig) - summa cum laude |
| 2020-2024 | Jonathan Ziegler, Dr. med. - defended on 05.03.2024 - Intraoperative in-situ autofluorescence and Raman spectroscopy for the differentiation of brain tumors, Faculty of Medicine TUD, supervised by PD Dr. Roberta Galli in cooperation with the Clinic and Polyclinic for Neurosurgery (Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Sobottka) - magna cum laude |
| 2018-2023 | Marius Albrecht, Dr. med. - defended on 09.05.2023 - In vivo optical coherence tomography of healthy human oral mucosa, Faculty of Medicine TUD, Coop. Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Günter Lauer) - summa cum laude |