Dr. Theresa Staufer

Research Profiles

 

Curriculum Vitae

Staufer, Theresa, Dr. rer. nat.

 

Personal Data

Title	Dr. rer. nat.
First name	Theresa
Name	Staufer
Current position	Deputy Head of Accelerator Physics Group, University of Hamburg, permanent position
Current institution(s)/site(s), country	Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Identifiers/ORCID	ORCID: 0000-0001-6658-5775

 

Qualifications and Career

Stages	Periods and Details
Degree programme	2009-2012: Bachelor of Science (Physics), Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2015-2017: Master of Science (Physics), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Doctorate	2017-2020: Dissertation in Phyics (Dr. rer. nat.) supervisors: Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner, Hamburg, Germany and Dr. Jens Osterhoff, Hamburg, Germany
Stages of academic/professional career	Since 2020: permanent position at University of Hamburg, Institute of Experimental Physics, Hamburg, Germany

 

Supplementary Career Information

 

Theresa Staufer has expertise in the development of novel X-ray sources and their

applications, mainly X-ray Fluorescence Imaging (XFI). She has contributed to several

breakthroughs in the field such as the tracking of labelled immune cells in living mice or uptake

measurements of a co-enzyme into single skin cells. Her main focus now lies on the further

advancement on XFI towards 3D-reconstruction and higher sensitivities.

 

Activities as scientific reviewer

Reviewer for original manuscripts and review articles: SciRep, IJMS, ACSnano

 

Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases between 2020 and 2024

Co-Supervision of 9 PhD students

Co-Supervision of 15 master and bachelor students

 

Scientific Results

Category A

 

1. von der Osten-Sacken, C.; Staufer, T.; Rothkamm, K.; Kuhrwahl, R.; Grüner, F.

Numerical Study towards In Vivo Tracking of Micro-/Nanoplastic Based on X-ray

Fluorescence Imaging. Biomedicines 2024, 12, 1500 doi:

10.3390/biomedicines12071500

2. Staufer T, Grüner F

Review of Development and Recent Advances in Biomedical X-ray Fluorescence

Imaging. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(13):10990. doi: 10.3390/ijms241310990. Open

access.

3. Staufer T, Körnig C, Liu B, Liu Y, Lanzloth C, Schmutzler O, Bedke T, Machicote A, Parak

W J, Feliu N, Bosurgi L, Huber S, Grüner F

Enabling X-ray fluorescence imaging for in vivo immune cell tracking. Scientific Reports

13, 11505, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38536-5. Open access.

4. Liu Y, Körnig C, Qi B, Schmutzler O, Staufer T, Sanchez-Cano C, Magel E, White J C,

Feliu N, Grüner F, Parak W J

Size- and Ligand-Dependent Transport of Nanoparticles in Matricaria chamomilla as

Demonstrated by Mass Spectroscopy and X-ray Fluorescence Imaging. ACS Nano,

2022. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05339. Open access.
2023. Staufer T, Schulze M L, Schmutzler O, Körnig C, Welge V, Burkhardt T, Vietzke J-P,

Vogelsang A, Weise J M, Blatt T, Dabrowski O, Falkenberg G, Brückner D, Sanchez-

Cano C, Grüner F

Assessing Cellular Uptake of Exogenous Coenzyme Q10 into Human Skin Cells by X-ray

Fluorescence Imaging. Antioxidants 11, no. 8:1532, 2022. doi: 10.3390/antiox11081532.

Open access.

6. Körnig C, Staufer T, Schmutzler O, Bedke T, Machicote A, Liu B, Liu Y, Gargioni E, Feliu

N, Parak W J, Huber S, Grüner F

In-situ X-ray fluorescence imaging of the endogenous iodine distribution in murine

thyroids. Scientific Reports 12, 2903, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06786-4. Open

access.

7. Ungerer A, Staufer T, Schmutzler O, Körnig C, Rothkamm K, Grüner F

X-ray-Fluorescence Imaging for In Vivo Detection of Gold-Nanoparticle-Labeled Immune

Cells: A GEANT4 Based Feasibility Study. Cancers 2021, 13(22):5759. doi:

10.3390/cancers13225759. Open access.

8. Kahl H, Staufer T, Körnig C, Schmutzler O, Rothkamm K, Grüner F

Feasibility of Monitoring Tumor Response by Tracking Nanoparticle-Labelled T Cells

Using X-ray Fluorescence Imaging—A Numerical Study. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 8736.

doi: 10.3390/ijms22168736. Open access.

9. Schmutzler O, Graf S, Behm N, Mansour W Y, Blumendorf F, Staufer T, Körnig C, Salah

D, Kang Y, Peter J N, Liu Y, Feliu N, Parak W J, Burkhardt A, Gargioni E, Gennis S,

Chandralingam S, Höeg F, Maison W, Rothkamm K, Schulz F, Grüner F

X-ray Fluorescence Uptake Measurement of Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles in Tumor

Cell Microsamples. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 3691. doi: 10.3390/ijms22073691. Open

access.

10. Sanchez-Cano C, Alvarez-Puebla R A, Abendroth J M, Beck T, Blick R, Cao Y, Caruso

F, Chakraborty I, Chapman H N, Chen C, Cohen B E, Conceição A L C, Cormode D P,

Cui D, Dawson K A, Falkenberg G, Fan C, Feliu N, Gao M, Gargioni E, Glüer C-C, Grüner

F, Hassan M, Hu Y, Huang Y, Huber S, Huse N, Kang Y, Khademhosseini A, Keller T F,

Körnig C, Kotov N A, Koziej D, Liang X-J, Liu B, Liu S, Liu Y, Liu Z, Liz-Marzán L M, Ma

X, Machicote A, Maison W, Mancuso A P, Megahed S, Nickel B, Otto F, Palencia C,

Pascarelli S, Pearson A, Peñate-Medina O, Qi B, Rädler J, Richardson J J, Rosenhahn

A, Rothkamm K, Rübhausen M, Sanyal M K, Schaak R E, Schlemmer H-P, Schmidt M,

Schmutzler O, Schotten T, Schulz F, Sood A K, Spiers K M, Staufer T, Stemer D M,

Stierle A, Sun X, Tsakanova G, Weiss P S, Weller H, Westermeier F, Xu M, Yan H, Zeng

Y, Zhao Y, Zhao Y, Zhu D, Zhu Y, Parak W J

X-ray-Based Techniques to Study the Nano–Bio Interface. ACS Nano 2021, 15,

3754−3807. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09563. Open access.

11. Grüner F, Blumendorf F, Schmutzler O, Staufer T, Bradbury M, Wiesner U, Rosentreter

T, Loers G, Lutz D, Richter B, Fischer M, Schulz F, Steiner S, Warmer M, Burkhardt A,

Meents A, Kupinski M, Hoeschen C

Localising functionalised gold-nanoparticles in murine spinal cords by X-ray fluorescence

imaging and background-reduction through spatial filtering for human-sized objects

Scientific Reports, Volume 8, Issue 1, Article number 16561 (2018). doi:

10.1038/s41598-018-34925-3. Open access.

 

Academic Distinctions

 

2020-2023 PIER Seed Project: funding for the further development of a laser-based X-ray

system for biomedical imaging

2023-2025 innovate! academy of the Joachim Herz Foundation: development of a compact

laboratory system for biomedical imaging