1998

Diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission with the main subjects of mathematics and physics.

1999 - 2000

Military service

1998 - 1999 and 2000 - 2005

Study of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

• Primary Subjects: Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture and Software Engineering
• Minor Subject: Physiology
• Student Research Project (Medical Image Processing): Automatic Intra-Modality Rigid 3D/3D Registration using Voxel Similarities.
• Diploma Thesis (Medical Image Processing): A Practical Salient Region Based Hierarchical Method for Aligning 3D Medical Images.

November 2004 - July 2005

Internship at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA

July 2005 - December 2009

PhD student and researcher at the Pattern Recognition Lab and the Clinics for Nuclear Medicine of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Teaching position since winter semester 2005

December 2009

Graduation to Dr.-Ing.
PhD thesis : "Statistical Medical Image Registration with Applications in Epilepsy Diagnosis and Shape-Based Segmentation "

Since 2010

Participation in the BMBF grant "Medical Imaging", Network project: "Angiogenesis - Targeting for diagnosis and therapy", 01EZ0808
Close kollaboration with the Clinics for Nuclear Medicine of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Company: Chimaera GmbH

Dieter Hahn is one of the CEOs of the company Chimaera GmbH, which was founded in 2007. The company is working in the field of medical image processing and is collaborating, among others, with the Pattern Recognition Lab in supervising student and diploma theses and participating in the BMBF grant "Medical Imaging".