Biography
Roarke Horstmeyer is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is also the Scientific Director at Ramona Optics. He develops microscopes, cameras and computer algorithms for a wide range of applications, from forming large-area, high-resolution 3D videos of freely moving organisms to detecting blood flow and brain activity deep within tissue. Dr. Horstmeyer’s lab currently performs research within the fields of ptychography, high-content microscopic imaging, physics informed machine learning algorithms, and biophotonic measurement systems. Before joining Duke in 2018, Dr. Horstmeyer was a visiting professor at the University of Erlangen in Germany and an Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow at Charité Medical School in Berlin. Prior to his time in Germany, Dr. Horstmeyer earned a PhD from Caltech’s Electrical Engineering department (2016), an MS from the MIT Media Lab (2011), and bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Japanese from Duke in 2006.
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Duke University, USA
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Keynote speaker, 2026