Venera Weinhardt is a physicist by training specializing in development of innovative X-ray imaging approaches for applications in biomaterials and medicine. Her department works on the development and adaptation of advanced imaging methods — including new X-ray optics, contrast mechanisms, low-dose imaging, and novel geometries — to help improve understanding of complex systems.
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Since 10/25
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Full professor (Heisenberg Programme, DFG) and head of the department X-ray Micro-Technology, Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
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Since 01/20
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Affiliate scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
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02/19-09/25
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Project Leader, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg,Germany |
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03/17-02/19
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Walter Benjamin Programme, DFG), Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
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01/16-02/17
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Research scientist, Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| 04/2014 | Dr. rer. nat in X-ray phase-contrast imaging (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tilo Baumbach) |
| 06/2009 | M.Sc. in New methods and materials in medicine |
| 06/2006 | B.Sc. in Physics |
Stays abroad in France and USA
| 2025 | CHS Short-term fellowship from the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation |
| 2025 | Scientific Editor of the Journal of Microscopy, member of the Royal Microscopy Society |
| 2024 | ERC Synergy Grant for Project „NanoX: Nanoscale X-ray tissue imaging: understanding the pathophysiology of hepatitis E infection“ |
| 2025 | Heisenberg fellowship of the German Research Foundation |
| 2023 | Winner of the "WIN-Conferences 2024" from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| Since 2023 | Invited as chair of the scientific advisory board for the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA |
| 2017 | Walter Benjamin Fellowship of the German Research Foundation |
Summer semester: Fundamentals of Medical Technology (T-MACH-114910)
