Jan Egger

Jan Egger is a Senior Lecturer at the Technical University of Graz and a research group leader at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM) at Essen University Hospital. With over 10 years of experience in medical image analysis and AI-guided therapies, he focuses on advancing healthcare through open science platforms like StudierFenster and MedShapeNet. His interdisciplinary background combines Computer Science (Ph.D., Habilitation) and Human Biology (Ph.D.).

• Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Ph.D. in Human Biology
• Habilitation in Computer Science

His research spans medical imaging, augmented reality surgery, and explainable AI, with a strong emphasis on clinical translation and startup incubation (e.g., Augmentomy). He has secured over €14 million in third-party funding and supervised ~100 student theses. Recent publications analyze transfer learning, synthetic data augmentation, and multimodal AI applications in oncology and radiology.

Jan leads the open science client/server-based medical platform StudierFenster and contributes to datasets like MedShapeNet and CytoNuke. His work bridges academic research with industry collaboration, particularly in AI-guided therapies and extended reality systems for healthcare.