Sebastian Hirsch

IT Team Leader @ atmosfair gGmbH

About

I am a physicist and software developer working as the IT team lead at climate protection NGO atmosfair gGmbH. Previously, I worked in academia in the field of magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance elastography. I am the first author of a textbook, Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Physical Background and Medical Applications.

Country

Germany

City

Berlin

Industry

Renewables & Environment

Skill

IT team management, DevOps & server administration, Emission calculation, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, Emissionsberechnung, Software-Entwicklung, Software-Projektleitung, Spring Boot, Data & image processing, Software development, Scientific writing, MR sequence development, MR Physics, Julia, Scientific consulting, Physics, Matlab, Python, Programming

Experience

IT Team Leader

atmosfair gGmbH

2024-7 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Berlin

‣ Leading a team of internal and external developers. ‣ Maintaining a complex system of new and legacy IT services. ‣ Developing, refining and implementing methodology for emission calculation. ‣ Responsible for short-term and long-term IT strategies.

Software Developer

atmosfair gGmbH

2022-11 - 2024-7 · 1 yr 9 mos

Berlin

‣ Researched, planned, developed and refined models for emission calculations, e.g. for commercial flights, hotel stays, cars and busses. ‣ Maintained a landscape of mostly legacy IT services.

MR Scientist

DeepSpin

2022-6 - 2022-9 · 4 mos

Berlin, Deutschland

‣ Researched and designed MR imaging concepts in strongly inhomogeneous magnetic fields ‣ Implemented software components for a novel type of MRI scanner

MR physicist (postdoc) at Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2017-5 - 2022-6 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Berlin

‣ Provided scientific and technical consultating for research studies using MRI ‣ Developed methods for MRI data acquisition (sequence development) and processing ‣ Performed MRI data analysis ‣ Planned, implemented and maintained storage architecture for MRI image data ‣ Conducted MRI safety trainings ‣ Designed and implemented an open-source framework for simulation and validation of MR pulse sequences, MRSequoia ‣ Designed and implemented open source software for searching DICOM data, DiKoala‣

Postdoc in Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2015-5 - 2017-4 · 2 yrs

Berlin

‣ Wrote (as the main author) a textbook on MR elastography titled "Magnetic Resonance Elastography - Physical Background and Medical Applications", published by Wiley-VCH.

PhD student in Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2009-9 - 2015-4 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

‣ Physical modelling of soft biological tissue ‣ Developed & programmed pulse sequences for Siemens MRI scanners ‣ Conducted studies to assess novel methodologies ‣ Data analysis

Undergraduate student in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Research Center Jülich

2008-7 - 2009-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jülich, Germany

Diploma thesis about post-processing of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) data. Thesis title: Development of a Novel Method for B0 Inhomogeneity Suppression in MRI Field Maps Using Adapted Solid Spherical Harmonic Functions

Undergraduate research assistant

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

2006-7 - 2007-9 · 1 yr 3 mos

Mainz, Germany

Worked on a software project to monitor network usage and detect failure of networking components. Additional activities: - Network administration (Linux & Unix) - System administration (Linux & Unix) - Developed a spam management system to notify users about blocked e-mails.