Felix Nensa

Felix Nensa

Scientific Director

Felix Nensa is a professor of radiology specializing in AI at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and a senior physician at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology. He also holds the additional medical qualification of “Medical Informatics.” He leads a research group that develops machine learning-based solutions for healthcare. His focus is on practical solutions that must work in a clinical context. He is particularly interested in interpretability, user trust, and interaction possibilities. He is the founder of the digital health platform SHIP and scientific director of the Data Integration Center at Essen University Hospital. Felix is spokesperson and principal investigator of the DFG-funded graduate college WisPerMed (RTG 2535), board member of the Information Technology Working Group of the German Radiological Society, coordinator of the MII method platform “Open Medical Inference” (OMI), editorial board member and section editor for AI at the European Journal of Radiology, co-founding editor of the European Journal of Radiology Artificial Intelligence, associate editorial board member of Investigative Radiology, and co-founder of the Emerging Technologies in Medicine (ETIM) congress. He is also the co-founder of several start-up companies.