Danays Kunka leads the Correlative X-ray Imaging Group at the IMT. Her group develops multicontrast X-ray imaging frameworks at CORREL, including analytical models, optics, and software for multimodal information acquisition and processing based on absorption, small-angle scattering, and phase contrast.This study aims to expand the X-ray imaging modalities for biomedical and materials science at synchrotrons and laboratories. Kunka mentors at the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics of the KIT in "Photonic Materials & Devices". She oversees the German side of the South Brazilian/German X-ray Imaging Network (s-BrAXIN). Kunka obtained her Ph.D. in high-energy physics from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2001 and worked there as a scientist until 2006. She then worked at KIT's Institute of Experimental Nuclear Physics of KIT from 2006 to 2011, participating in the Pierre Auger Collaboration from 1999-2002 and 2006-2011.