ETH Zurich, Science City
June 27 - July 1, 2011

The International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics |ICORR 2011
International Neurorehabilitation Symposium |INRS 2011
International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation |ICVR 2011

Lüth, Tim

Professor and director Institute for Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology
Managing director
Institute for Mechatronics
Technical University of Munich, Germany
www.mw.tum.de/index.php?cid=939

Tim C. Lüth received his degree in electrical engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany in 1989. Afterwards, he received the Ph.D. degree in robotics and habilitation in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting Researcher at the MITI-AIST Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. In 1997, Lueth became Professor for surgical navigation and robotics at the medical school Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin of the Humboldt University at Berlin. In 2001, he became the Director for Mechatronic Medical Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK. Since 2005, Lueth works as Professor, Chair, and Director of the Institute of Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology of the University of Technology, Munich. In 2006, he received a professor status at the University of Toronto, Canada. The European Patent Office elected him in 2007 as TOP-3 inventor in the category “lifetime achievement” for his patent activities in the area of surgical robotics and navigation. He received several national and international awards for his research on medical devices. In 2010, Lueth became elected Member of “acatech,” by the German National Academy for Science and Technology. Lueth is active Member of the IEEE R&A Chapter and the IEEE EMB Chapter.

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ICORR 2011
INRS 2011
ICVR 2011


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