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Jan Kirschke is the Director of the Institute of Neuroradiology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His scientific focus is on automated image processing using artificial intelligence and the development of image-based biomarkers for inflammatory, neurodegenerative, and oncological diseases of the central nervous system and spine. Kirschke leads a research group called 'deep spine,' which is funded by the DFG and BMBF and has received three ERC grants. He completed his medical studies and received his doctorate from TUM in 2004. After completing a fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco in 2005-2006, he finished specialist training at the Institute of Radiology at TUM. He habilitated in 2012 and became part of the Department of Neuroradiology at TUM as a senior physician and research group leader. In 2024, he declined a position at the University of Heidelberg to accept a professorship in neuroradiology at TUM.