Prof. Dr. Thomas Stieglitz
Thomas Stieglitz studied electrical engineering, specializing in biomedical engineering, in Brunswick and Karlsruhe. He got his PhD from Saarland University where he also habilitated in biomedical microsystems engineering in 2002.
From 1993 to 2004, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, IBMT) in St. Ingbert. There he founded the research conducted in the field of biomedical microsystems for neuroprosthetics, which eventually led to the formation of a neuroprosthetics task force.
Since 2004, Prof. Stieglitz has held the chair for biomedical microtechnology at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik, IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg. His research priorities include the development of biocompatible construction and interconnection technologies as well as the use of microsystems for neuroprostheses and neuromodulation.