I am absolutely thrilled to have received funding for 2025 from the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery and Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery (made possible by a donation from Schmidt Sciences), as a PI for our project on
AI meets cultural heritage: Non-invasive imaging and machine learning techniques for the reconstruction of degraded historical sheet music
collaborating with the Fitzwilliam Museum, the library of Gonville & Caius College and the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (Cambridge University Library).
Very excited to work with these departments to image and analyse fascinating old music in more detail!
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Springer Book (Essentials Series)
Am excited that my book on “Basiswissen der mathematischen Bildbearbeitung – Zwischen Theorie und Anwendung” is finally out! It is available as e-Book as well as paperback:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-68284-5
City of Vienna 2024 Promotion Award
I feel very honoured and thankful to have been awarded by the City of Vienna in the category of STEM!
https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20240715_OTS0006/bekanntgabe-der-preise-der-stadt-wien-und-der-foerderungspreise-2024
The City of Vienna’s prizes for culture and science have been awarded annually since 1947. In order to give appropriate recognition to young artists and scientists, 13 additional prizes have been awarded each year since 1951. The award is a recognition of the previous artistic and scientific achievements of the prize winners and is intended to encourage them in their future careers

Novel Springer Book Series
I am proud and excited to be the founder and editor of the novel German Springer Book Series “Vielfalt der Mathematik” (Co-Editor Alexandra Edletzberger).
The books in the series will portrait the diverse careers and research topics of Mathematicians and we are excited to announce the first book of the series:
Sandra Müller – Faszination Unendlichkeit
https://www.springer.com/series/17402
Project iDeal: First IQA preprints available!
Very excited to share the first two preprints of the iDeal project regarding IQA for medical images:
A study of why we need to reassess full reference image quality assessment with medical images (submitted 2024)
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.19097
A study on the adequacy of common IQA measures for medical images (submitted 2024)
ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19224
Stem Fatale
I have joined the STEM fatale initiative and will be supporting the initiative with data analyses!
Music and AI in OCG Magazine
I am very excited that I got invited to write an article on Music and AI for the journal of the Austrian Computer Society. It appeared in the OCG Magazine 12/23, you may find it here (in German)
https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/68576435/ocg-journal-4-23-zukunftsmusik-der-einfluss-der-kunstlichen-intelligenz-in-der-musik


Article and radio broadcast in Ö1
I feel honoured to have been featured by Ö1! Here you may find the article about my work online: https://science.orf.at/stories/3219920/
And here the corresponding radio broadcast: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20230710/725945/Medizinbilder-und-Netzwerkforschung
Article in Hospital Magazin PulsM
I am very honoured that there appeared a full length article about my work in the German hospital magazine PulsM written by Sonja Hausmanns!!
Click here for the full article: https://marienhaus.de/media/pdf/PulsM_2022_01/44/

FWF Hertha Firnberg at MedUni Wien
I am very excited to have started my interdisciplinary research project on ‘Image based Data Evaluation Analyses and Medical Application’ at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna!