Lennart Bastian

I am a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, supported through the UK Royal Society Newton International Fellowship. I work with the Circle Group of Tolga Birdal, where we pursue topics at the intersection of geometry, topology, and machine learning.

I completed my PhD with highest distinction (summa cum laude) at the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) in Munich, supervised by Prof. Nassir Navab, where I also coordinated research of the Surgical Data Science team. Prior to this, I conducted my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich with an emphasis on optimization and statistics, and Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University's Courant Institute.

I also had previous stints in software and data science at H2oMetrics, a cloud water management startup, and as a research assistant at the MSKCC Levine Lab, developing computational tools for the genetic analysis of myeloid leukemias.