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Research Associate Research Group Spine Dr. sc. ETH Moritz Jokeit

Katharina Horlacher

Position and faculty

Research Associate Research Group Spine

Specialty

Biomechanics of the spine, deep learning, radiological image analysis

Languages

German

English

Italian

Curriculum

since 01/2026

Research Associate Research Group Spine, Schulthess Klinik

2021 – 2025

Research Assistant Spine Biomechanics Group, Balgrist University Hospital

2020

Research Assistant Chair of Computational Modelling & Simulation, TU Munich

2019 – 2020

Research Assistant Computational Mechanics Group, TU Munich

Education and training

2021 – 2025

Dr. sc. ETH in Biomechanics, ETH Zurich 
Dissertation: “The Biomechanics of Adjacent Segment Degeneration”

2018 – 2020

Master of Science in Computational Mechanics, TU Munich 
Thesis: “Exploring Physics-informed Neural Networks for the Heat Equation” 

2013 – 2017

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, TU Munich

Awards and honours

2025 Balgrist Research Award in Orthopaedics

2022 NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant

Publications