Special issue AUTOMED

• Philipp Rostalski

  Philipp Rostalski is a professor for Electrical Engineering in Medicine and founding director of the corresponding institute at the University of Lübeck. Since 2020 he is also director at the Fraunhofer IMTE, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering in Lübeck. He received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and served as a Feodor Lynen Scholar at the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, USA. His research activities include model- and data-driven methods in signal processing and control with a particular focus on safety-critical systems. Primary application domains are biomedical and autonomous systems. Philipp Rostalski is speaker of the Technical Committee AUTOMED of the DGBMT/GMA within VDE/VDI.

  , Thomas Schanze

  Thomas Schanze is a professor of biomedical engineering at THM since 2009 and head of the project area for biomedical signal processing and neuroprosthetics at TransMIT GmbH, Giessen, since 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics from the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany in 1995. From 1989 to 2004 he worked at the Department of Physics at the Philipps University of Marburg. From 1992 to 1994 he worked for Uwe Thomas Recording GmbH, Marburg, as a senior electronics developer. From 2005 to 2006, he was employed at the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University as a research scientist. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a senior employee, board member, CEO and independent consultant in the fields of optics and retinal implants. His research interests include biomedical engineering, signal processing, neuro and computational physics, artificial intelligence/machine learning and optics. He holds patents in the fields of biomedical engineering and optics and has published more than 100 papers. Thomas Schanze was host of the AUTOMED Symposium 2023 at TH Mittelhessen, Gießen, Germany in March 2023.

  and Thomas Seel

  Thomas Seel is the Director of the Institute of Mechatronic Systems at Leibniz Universität Hannover. He studied Engineering Cybernetics at OVGU Magdeburg and UC Santa Barabara, and he received the PhD degree in Systems and Control Engineering from TU Berlin in 2016. He has been a full professor at the Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2021 and has been appointed at Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2023. His research interests include sensor fusion, dynamic learning, and sensorimotor AI in robotics and biomedical applications. Thomas Seel is co-speaker of the Technical Committee AUTOMED of the DGBMT/GMA within VDE/VDI.