Claudia Richter is a biomedical scientist exploring how light-based technologies can reveal and control cardiac function. She leads the Translational Cardiac Optics Group at the Department of Laboratory Animal Science, German Primate Center (Leibniz Institute for Primate Research), where her team combines sensors, optogenetic tools, and imaging methods to investigate the mechanisms that shape cardiac dynamics. Before establishing her group, she led a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and has maintained a collaboration with the University Medical Center Göttingen. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Rostock. Her research focuses on the interplay between physiological mechanisms and clinical complexity, tissue morphogenesis, and self-organization, aiming to translate fundamental findings into advances in cardiovascular health.
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