Ulrich G. Hofmann
Former Research Associate
Research Interests
HUMAN-MACHINE-INTERFACING
NEURO-ENGINEERING
Goal: Bridging the gap between experimental and simulation approaches for the neuro- and medical sciences.
• Novel high-performance and realtime data acquisition systems for many channels (and neurons).
• Realtime visualization, analysis and data mining in huge neuronal data volumes.
• Modelling of big realistic neuron networks.
CV
2008 Professor, University of Lübeck
2008 Call for a professorate in Biomedical Engineering/Neural Engineering, Reykjavik University, Iceland
2007 Co-Founder of "pro-MedTec GmbH", Lübeck, medical robotics
2005/06 Co-Author "Graduate School Lübeck", DFG-Exzellenzinitiative
2003 Habilitation in Computer Science
1999-2000 Member of the Board of Directors of BioTuL AG, München, Germany
since 1999 Research Associate, University of Lübeck
1997-1998 Postdoctoral Scholar, Feodor-Lynen-Fellow, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. "Technology for multisite neuronal recordings"
1996 Research Associate, HCM-Fellow, Institutionen för Fysikalisk Kemi, Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland. "Ultra-microscopy and surface functionalization of semiconducors"
1993-1996 Research Assistant; Physics Department, Technische Universität München.
Biosensors, ultra-microscopy, ultra-thin films, bio-functionalization, cell culture
1993-1994 Co-founder and part-time manager of the scientific services company MiNT, München
1992-1993 Graduation in Physics, Diploma. Technische Universität München.
Thesis: " Polymerizable diacetylene lipids on the air/water interface"
1987-1992 Undergraduate studies in Technical Physics, Technische Universität München. Specializing in medical electronics and medical radiological physics.
1985-1987 Officer track in the German Army medical service
1985 High School Graduation
2001
Electrophysiological depth profiling by multiunit microelectrodes for stereotactic neurosurgery, 2001. US Patent No. 6,330,466, California Institute of Technology, USA.
| Bibtex: |  @MISC{HOF01a,
author = {U. G. Hofmann and J. Thompson and D. T. Kewley},
title = {Electrophysiological depth profiling by multiunit microelectrodes
for stereotactic neurosurgery},
howpublished = {US Patent No. 6,330,466, California Institute of Technology, USA},
year = {2001}
}
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Extracellular potential data generated in a network simulation, in Poster and Abstract, The Neurosciences at the Turn of the Century, Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society , Göttingen: Georg Thieme Verlag, 2001.
| Bibtex: | @INPROCEEDINGS{MEN01a,
author = {K. M. L. Menne and R. Maex and U. G. Hofmann},
title = {Extracellular potential data generated in a network simulation},
booktitle = {Poster and Abstract, The Neurosciences at the Turn of the Century,
Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society},
year = {2001},
volume = {1},
number = {602},
address = {Göttingen},
publisher = {Georg Thieme Verlag}
}
|
2000
On the design of multi-site microelectrodes for neuronal recordings, in World Conference on Microtechnologies: MICRO.tec 2000 , VDE-Verlag, 2000. pp. 283-288.
| File: |  Hofmann_etal.Micro.tec00_01.pdf
|
| Bibtex: | @INPROCEEDINGS{HofmannMicroTec00,
author = {U. G. Hofmann and E. De Schutter and M. de Curtis and K. Yoshida
and U. Thomas and P. Norlin},
title = {On the design of multi-site microelectrodes for neuronal recordings},
booktitle = {World Conference on Microtechnologies: MICRO.tec 2000},
year = {2000},
volume = {1/2},
pages = {283-288},
publisher = {VDE-Verlag}
}
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Relationship between field potentials and spike activity in rat SI: Multi-site cortical recordings and simulations, Neurocomputing , vol. 32-33, pp. 591-596, 2000.
| File: | VanHooser_NEUCOM_01.pdf
|
| Bibtex: | @ARTICLE{VanHooserNEUCOM00,
author = {S. D. van Hooser and U. G. Hofmann and D. T. Kewley and J. M. Bower},
title = {Relationship between field potentials and spike activity in rat SI:
Multi-site cortical recordings and simulations},
journal = {Neurocomputing},
year = {2000},
volume = {32-33},
pages = {591-596}
}
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Towards a versatile system for advanced neuronal recordings using silicon multisite microelectrodes, Biomedizinische Technik , vol. 45, no. E 1, pp. 169-170, 2000.
| File: | Hofmann_Folkers_etal.BMT00_01.pdf
|
| Bibtex: | @ARTICLE{HofmannFolkersBMT00,
author = {U. G. Hofmann and A. Folkers and T. Malina and G. Biella and M. de
Curtis and E. DeSchutter and K. Yoshida and U. Thomas and D. Höhl and P. Norlin},
title = {Towards a versatile system for advanced neuronal recordings using
silicon multisite microelectrodes},
journal = {Biomedizinische Technik},
year = {2000},
volume = {45},
pages = {169-170},
number = {E 1}
}
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On the design of intracranial multi-site microelectrodes for electro impedance tomography, Biomedizinische Technik , vol. 45, no. E 1, pp. 167-168, 2000.
| File: | Hofmann-Knopp_etal.BMT00.pdf
|
| Bibtex: | @ARTICLE{HofmannKnoppBMT00,
author = {U. G. Hofmann and F. Hertlein and U. Knopp and E. Langer},
title = {On the design of intracranial multi-site microelectrodes for electro
impedance tomography},
journal = {Biomedizinische Technik},
year = {2000},
volume = {45},
pages = {167-168},
number = {E 1}
}
|
1999
Connector for semiconductor microelectrodes and flexible wiring., .... US Patent, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1999.
| Bibtex: | @Book{HofmannUSPatent1999,
title = {Connector for semiconductor microelectrodes and flexible wiring},
publisher = {US Patent, California Institute of Technology, USA},
year = {1999},
author = {Hofmann, U.H. and Kewley, D.T. and Bower, J.M.},
number = {5, 951,323},
} |
