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Sasan Matinfar is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring how complex surgical information can become perceptually accessible through sound and multisensory interaction. At TUM CAMP, he leads the Sonification Team and serves as Scientific Coordinator of the DFG Synergia project between TUM and TU Dresden.

He conceived From Tissue to Sound, a research framework that connects medical imaging, vibroacoustic sensing and interaction data with computational auditory feedback. His work spans computer-assisted intervention, medical XR, adaptive interfaces and multisensory human–AI interaction.

He earned a PhD in Computer Science summa cum laude from TUM under Prof. Nassir Navab. Studies in Musicology at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and Piano Performance at the Art University of Tehran inform his approach to sound as a way of understanding medical data.

Navid Navab is a media artist, composer and ArtScience practitioner whose work draws on contemporary music, biomedical sonification and philosophical biology. Their installations and performances explore how sound emerges from physical behavior, resonance and responsive machines.

Their work spans kinetic sound sculpture, responsive environments and gestural composition, and has been presented internationally. As a researcher, Navab has led interdisciplinary experiments across art, science and technology since 2008 and directs the Topological Media Lab.

For SoniXense, this practice brings a distinctive way of thinking about sound: as a medium through which complex physical processes can be sensed and understood. Organism belongs to this artistic lineage; it is not a medical technology project.

Veronica Ruozzi is a biomedical engineer and researcher working in physical and numerical modeling of surgical interactions, physics-based sonification and medical XR at TUM CAMP. Her work connects biomechanical simulation with multisensory interfaces for computer-assisted procedures.

She earned a PhD cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Her doctoral research studied physics-based extended reality for real-time guidance in minimally invasive cardiovascular interventions.

Her contribution to SoniXense sits at the bridge between tool–tissue interaction and auditory representation: physical changes in tissue can become meaningful sound.

Nassir Navab is Professor of Computer Aided Medical Procedures at TUM. His research group develops technologies linking medicine and computer science to improve medical interventions, with work spanning augmented reality, imaging, surgical navigation and intelligent systems.

He completed his doctorate at INRIA / Paris XI, followed by postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Laboratory. Before joining TUM as a full professor in 2003, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton.

His long research trajectory in computer-assisted intervention and medical XR provides a clinical and computational foundation for the auditory interaction research behind SoniXense.