Dr Joana Grah studied mathematics at the University of Münster, obtained her PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and worked as a research assistant at the Alan Turing Institute in London, UK, at TU Graz, Austria, and at HHU Düsseldorf. She is currently a research associate in the field of "Image Analysis" at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research at the Robert Koch Institute. Her expertise is in mathematical image processing, methods of AI, inverse problems, optimisation and variational methods.