Jan Christoph is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and head of the Cardiac Vision Laboratory. He is a faculty member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, with appointments in the Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, and the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. His research interests include cardiac electrophysiology and biomechanics, cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms, the physics of complex biological systems, artificial intelligence, numerical modeling and imaging. Previously, he worked at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany, where he developed novel optical and ultrasound-based imaging techniques for the visualization of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.

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Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Scientist, Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Postdoctoral Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Ph.D., Physics of Biological and Complex Systems, University of Göttingen, Germany

Invited Conference Talk, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research, North America Section, Long Beach, California, USA

Invited Seminar Talk, Data-Driven Physical Simulations Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA

Invited Talk, AI across Biological Scales Symposium, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Invited Talk, Frontiers in Pharmacology Seminar, University of California, Davis, USA

Invited Talk, Department of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA

Invited Talk, ESC Congress 2022, European Society of Cardiology, Barcelona, Spain

Invited Talk, Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms, Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire, USA

Invited Talk, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminar, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Invited Talk, Cardiology Grand Rounds, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Invited Mini-Symposium Talk, Dynamics Days Europe 2021, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France + virtual (Link)

Invited Conference Talk at Symposium 'Seeing, Feeling, and Hearing Electrophysiology in Excitable Organs: Next-generation Electrophysiology', Physiology 2021 Conference by the Physiological Society, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Link)

Mini-Symposium Talk, SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Portland / Virtual, USA (Link)

Invited Seminar Talk, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Invited Symposium Talk, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Invited Lecture, Cardiovascular Grand Rounds, School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart and Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Invited Seminar Talk, Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Invited Symposium Talk, Freiburg Cardiac Ion Channel Meeting, From Ion Channels to Clinical Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias, Freiburg, Germany

Invited Talk, Workshop on Cardiac Modeling, Towards an Integrated Numerical Heart Model, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Bad Herrenalb, Germany

Invited Conference Talk, ‘Electro-mechanical Rotors during Arrhythmias’, 17th Dutch-German Joint Meeting of the Molecular Cardiology Working Group, Göttingen, Germany

Invited Conference Keynote Lecture ‘Tempests of the Heart: the Electrical and Mechanical Phenomena underlying Cardiac Fibrillation’ Europhysiology 2018 Conference by the Physiological Society, Early Career Symposium, London, UK

Invited Seminar Talk at KITP Program ‘Integrative Cardiac Dynamics’, ‘Electromechanical Vortex Filaments during Cardiac Fibrillation (extended Version)’, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Link)

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NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2) (Link)

Postdoctoral Excellence Grant, German Center for Cardiovascular Research

'From the Literature: Imaging Technique Reveals the Dynamic Processes in the Fibrillating Heart', Circulation (Link)

'EP News: Electromechanical Vortex Filaments during Cardiac Fibrillation', Heart Rhythm Journal (Link)

‘Imaging Vortex Filaments during Cardiac Fibrillation’ in Physics Today (Link)

Award ‘Best Oral Presentation’ at Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, USA