Current work
Martinos Center
MRI hardware research with Jason Stockmann at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
Jason Stockmann’s group ↗Curriculum vitae
Philipp Amrein
MRI hardware engineer · CoilGen creator & maintainer
Profile
MRI hardware engineer focused on RF and gradient coil design, electromagnetic modeling, and the mathematical optimization of winding patterns. Creator and maintainer of CoilGen, with experience spanning academic research, Neoscan’s DYNAMIC 14 T project in the Netherlands and the Martinos Center.
Experience & education
Industry
Neoscan · DYNAMIC 14 T project
Main coil designer for Neoscan’s DYNAMIC 14 T MRI project in the Netherlands, responsible for designing the coil layouts.
Neoscan Solutions ↗Doctoral research
University of Freiburg
Gradient coil design with Maxim Zaitsev and Sebastian Littin. CoilGen was developed during this research to automate the path from a target magnetic field to a coil winding layout.
Read doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg ↗Master’s research
MRI RF coils
Master’s thesis on RF coils with Jan-Bernd Hövener in Freiburg, following physics studies at the University of Freiburg.
Education
Physics · University of Freiburg
Physics studies at the University of Freiburg, providing the foundation for work in electromagnetic modeling, optimization and MR hardware.
University of Freiburg ↗Selected software project
CoilGen & CoilGen2
Integrated coil design from triangulated support geometry and target fields to optimized stream functions, contour topology, winding connections and field evaluation. The current class-based Python development includes a Qt/VTK workbench, script workflows, saved projects and engineering diagnostics.
Core technical areas: target-field optimization, regularization, mesh-based geometry, Biot–Savart evaluation, wire paths, resistance/inductance estimates and reproducible numerical studies.
https://github.com/Philipp-MR/Coilgen2Selected publication
Amrein P, Jia F, Zaitsev M, Littin S. CoilGen: Open-source MR coil layout generator. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2022;88(3):1465–1479. doi:10.1002/mrm.29294.
Technical expertise
RF and gradient coils · Electromagnetic modeling · Constrained optimization · Stream functions · Mesh geometry · Wire-pattern topology · MATLAB and Python · Numerical validation.
Project-focused CV · 25 October 2026. Career dates are omitted where not supplied.