Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Steffen Leonhardt

Chair of Medical Information Technology

Address:

Helmholtz Institute of Biomedical Engineering

RWTH Aachen University

Pauwelsstr. 20

D-52074 Aachen

GERMANY

www:

http://www.medit.hia.rwth-aachen.de

e-mail:

leonhardt(at)hia.rwth-aachen.de

Phone:

+49/241/80/23211

Fax:

+49/241/80/82442

Biography:

Steffen Leonhardt was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 6th, 1961. He holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA, a Dipl.-Ing. and a Dr.-Ing. degree in Control Engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and a Dr. med. degree from the Medical School of Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He has 5 years of R&D management experience in medical engineering industry and was appointed Head of the Philips Chair of Medical Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 2003. His research interests include physiological measurement techniques, personal health care systems and feedback control systems in medicine.