High blood pressure is the greatest health risk worldwide behind smoking and alcohol consumption. In Germany, around 25 percent of the population suffers from arterial hypertension, as the condition is referred to in medical circles. The microsystems engineers Dr. Dennis Plachta and Prof. Dr. Thomas Stieglitz from the Laboratory of Biomedical Microtechnology at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg teamed up with the neurosurgeons Dr. Mortimer Gierthmühlen and Prof. Dr. Josef Zentner from the Medical Center – University of Freiburg to develop a new cuff equipped with electrodes that can lower blood pressure without causing side effects.
The Senate of the University of Freiburg has elected two new part-time vice rectors: Gisela Riescher (Faculty of Humanities) will be responsable for academic integrity, equal opprtunity and diversity, Margit Zacharias (Faculty of Engineering, Department of Microsystems Engineering) for technolgy transfer and innovation.
A recent article in "Lab on a Chip" describing an optofluidic optical router developed by the Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-optics in collaboration with CSIC in Barcelona, Spain, was featured as a "Research Highlight" by Nature Photonics (On-chip router,” Nature Photonics, vol. 8, p. 85, 2014). The fully integrated router relies solely on electrically-movable liquid-liquid interfaces for switching optical signals and is based on micromachined glass and polymer materials.
Thomas van Oordt et al. from the Lab-on-a-Chip division describe the effect of ultrasonic welding parameters on the peel strength of polyethylene films and provide a practical guideline for a systematic adjustment of welding parameters.
Freiburg researchers have developed electrodes that help amputees to grasp at objects
Scientists of IMTEK and HSG-IMIT are developing a fully automated system, which can identify sepsis in infants within hours instead of days.
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The Faculty of Engineering wishes to congratulate the students chosen for the Christoph-Rüchardt scholarship 2013: Jan Burchard (Informatik), Christoph Gissler (Informatik), Abinaya Krishnaraja (Microsystems Engineering), Tina Preisinger (Mikrosystemtechnik) und Annelie Schiller (Mikrosystemtechnik).
Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl has been appointed as a professor for the newly installed Chair of Systems Theory at IMTEK and has taken over this position at the beginning of the winter semester 2013/14. He is an expert in Control Engineering and Optimisation and worked as a Professor for Optimisation in Engineering at KU Leuven/Belgium where he headed the "Optimisation in Engineering Center" OPTEC.
We wish you a good start with your studies at the Faculty of Engineering. A new city, a new room, new people: you are entering an new phase in your life
Konstantinos Mitsakakis received Innovation Award for his project DiscoGnosis in Cork during the 7th Annual Concertation and Consultation Workshop on Micro-Nano-Bio Convergence Systems
IMTEK hosts the second dissemination workshop of the European-Japanese Project EUJO-LIMMS funded by the EU and the JSPS. EUJO-LIMMS is a cooperation project between IMTEK, the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University of Tokyo, VTT (Finland) and EPFL (Switzerland). The workshop will feature oral presentations by the project partners, surrounded by a poster lunch session and an evening reception. The workshop is open to all those interested.
Scientists at the Department of Microsystems Engineering present new concept for biofuel cells - cover story in ChemSusChem, the journal for chemistry, sustainability, energy, and materials
The award ceremony of the degree certificates will take place on Friday, 05 July 2013 on the campus of the Faculty of Engineering. This year, due to the increased number of graduates for the first time we awarded the Bachelor certificates and the Master's/PhD/Habilitation certificates separately.
Title: "Modelling and Optimization of Empirical Algorithm Performance"
Public Panel Discussion on April 17, on the much-debated 'Open Access' Model
Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science Theresia Bauer, Rector Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Dr. Harald von Kalm from the German Research Foundation, and Cluster Director Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard inaugurated the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools on 9 April 2013.
Lectures - workshops - research highlights - networking - career building
The Department of Microsystems Engineering of the University of Freiburg is Coordinating the Research Project NeuroSeeker
Researchers of the laboratory of Nanotechnology have published one of the cover articles in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Scientists from Freiburg Build a Microimplant that Uses a Laser to Control Individual Nerve Cells
Special Christmas lecture of Prof. Oliver Ambacher
The Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-Optics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Freiburg to be established in 2013
As a new member of Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Roland Zengerle has now received his certificate of membership on March 20 in Halle (Saale).
Five laboratories of IMTEK contribute to the SFB/Transregio “Planar Optronic Systems,” which will be distributed among several locations. It will receive a total of 9.8 million euros. The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the decision on Novmeber, 21 in Bonn.
Konstantinos Mitsakakis at the Lab for MEMS Applications at IMTEK is coordinating the research project DiscoGnosis, which started in November.
Dr Dennis Plachta's poster on selective stimulation of the vagal nerve was awarded the 2nd prize in the BMT 2012 poster competition of the 46th Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering within the VDE (DGBMT) in Jena, 17-19th September 2012.