Prof. Katarina Braune, MD is a pediatrician, medical informatician, and digital health researcher with over 25 years of lived experience with type 1 diabetes. She is Professor and Chair of Digital Health – Non-Communicable Diseases at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany and holds a faculty affiliation with the Charité University Hospital Berlin. She also serves as Medical Advisor at Tidepool, focusing on women’s health.

Drawing on both clinical expertise and personal experience with open-source automated insulin delivery systems, Katarina’s work bridges medicine, data science, and user-led technology design to improve care for people with diabetes and other chronic conditions. Her research focuses on context-aware automated insulin delivery, digital biomarkers, interoperability, digital literacy, and equitable access to technology-enabled care. She previously co-led the OPEN project, an international research collaboration studying open-source diabetes innovation.

Katarina is also pioneering an inclusive teaching concept that integrates people with lived experience as co-lecturers across all career levels—from students to healthcare executives—fostering mutual learning and empowering future leaders to design digital health solutions that truly meet user needs. She collaborates internationally across research, policy, and advocacy networks to advance digital health, diabetes technology, and health equity.