Alexander Broersen PhD

Dr. Alexander Broersen is a scientific researcher in the section ‘vascular & molecular imaging’ in the division of image processing. He received his M.Sc. degree in computer science at the University of Twente in 2003 with a thesis entitled “Designing a Virtual Piano Playing Environment”. In the next year, he joined the visualization and 3D user interfaces theme of the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam. There he performed his Ph.D. research on “Feature visualization in large scale imaging mass spectrometry data” which he defended at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2008, he started as a post-doctoral researcher at the laboratory for clinical and experimental image processing at the Leiden University Medical Center. His work involves the automatic diagnostic vascular analysis by comparing computed tomography angiography with corresponding intravascular ultrasound datasets.