The group

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Amin Turki

Principal Investigator

Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen · Department of Hematology and Oncology, Marienhospital University Hospital Bochum

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Amin Turki graduated from the University of Münster, Germany and earned his PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. He leads the junior research group Computational Hematology at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at the University Hospital Essen and is also deputy-head of the Department of Hematology and Oncology at Marienhospital University Hospital Bochum. His main areas of expertise are malignant hematology, cellular therapy as well as data science in hematology.

Katja Scheidler, B.Sc.

Research Assistant

IKIM, University Hospital Essen

Katja Scheidler works at IKIM where medicine meets quantitative methods, after earlier training in economics. Her doctoral research follows intestinal bacterial patterns after allogeneic stem cell transplantation and early bloodstream infection, setting routine stool cultures from Essen beside sequencing measurements from Memorial Sloan Kettering. She contributes to the group’s papers on AI in transplant care and transfusion medicine, and in 2025 received the BRYCK special prize for Alphademia, a proposal for exploring the scientific literature visually.

Stefano Polizzi, PhD

Postdoc

IKIM, University Hospital Essen · IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna

Clustering, survival, and network methods for Harmony leukemia data, other hematologic malignancies, solid tumours, and microbiome kinetics.

Mireya Morote-Faubel, PhD

Postdoc

IKIM, University Hospital Essen

Qazi Mateen Ahmad, M.Sc.

Software Engineer

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Building a Python pipeline to test the EASIX biomarker (LDH × creatinine / platelets) as a predictor of mortality in a cardiac cohort of about 54,000 patients, using FHIR data from the Medical Informatics Initiative research portal.

Runze Li, MD

PhD candidate

IKIM, University Hospital Essen

Doctoral research at IKIM on machine learning in cancer, moving from clinical and experimental work toward computational methods.

Hayder Alhassani

MD Thesis (Promotion)

IKIM, University Hospital Essen · Institut für Pathologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Associated

Chidiebube Ugwu, MD, MPH

Clinician Scientist

Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital

Studying why outcomes in blood cancers differ by race and ancestry: TP53 co-mutation networks in multiple myeloma (AACR Project GENIE; oral abstract, AACR 2026), ancestry-resolved mutation patterns in myelodysplastic neoplasm, and real-world evidence on tyrosine kinase inhibitor switching in chronic myeloid leukemia.