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STEFFEN LEONHARDT RWTH Aachen University |
Wearables, Body Sensor Networks and beyond
Wearables may track motion and measure vital signs. More and more, they accompany our life. While there have been dedicated medical wearables for specific diseases (like e.g. diabetes mellitus), many wearables like fitness trackers and smart watches have originally been developed for private use. Yet, we are whitnessing a gradual move of such amateur sportive and fitness devices towards becoming „medical products“.
The increasing integration and the communication capabilities of body-worn sensors allows to create body sensor networks which benefit from synchronized sampling and will enable new functionalities.
The increasing integration and the communication capabilities of body-worn sensors allows to create body sensor networks which benefit from synchronized sampling and will enable new functionalities.
Steffen Leonhardt (SM’06) received the M.S. degree from SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA, the Dipl.-Ing. and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from TU Darmstadt, Germany, and the M.D. degree from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. After almost 5 years of duty as a Research and Development Manager for Dräger Medical AG&Co KGaA, Lübeck, Germany, he was recruited as a Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in 2003, where he has been the Philips Endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology til 2017. His research interests include closed-loop control and automation in medicine, bioimpedance, unobtrusive sensing, and cyber medical systems.
Steffen Leonhardt is a Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany, since 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the President for the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism, from 2015 to 2016 he was appointed an IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer. In 2018, he received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. Furthermore, in that year he has been appointed Distinguished Professor at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. His publication record can be found at https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=GZo4IYgAAAAJ.
Among other duties, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and the journal Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Steffen Leonhardt
Chair for Medical Information Technology
Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University
Pauwelsstr. 20, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49 (241) 80 23211
FAX: +49 (241) 80 623211
leonhardt (at) hia.rwth-aachen.de
www.medit.hia.rwth-aachen.de
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Steffen Leonhardt is a Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany, since 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the President for the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism, from 2015 to 2016 he was appointed an IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer. In 2018, he received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. Furthermore, in that year he has been appointed Distinguished Professor at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. His publication record can be found at https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=GZo4IYgAAAAJ.
Among other duties, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and the journal Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Steffen Leonhardt
Chair for Medical Information Technology
Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University
Pauwelsstr. 20, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49 (241) 80 23211
FAX: +49 (241) 80 623211
leonhardt (at) hia.rwth-aachen.de
www.medit.hia.rwth-aachen.de
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