Inéz Frerichs
Prof. Dr. Inéz Frerichs is a Professor of Physiology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. She is the head of the Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) research group at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany. In her scientific career, she has been involved with different aspects of lung-oriented research (e.g. gas transport in the lungs, high-frequency oscillation ventilation, respiratory mechanics, functional lung imaging, wearable lung monitoring). Her major research focus is EIT. She has published 198 original articles (149 on EIT), 15 reviews and 21 book chapters. She is the coordinator and first author of the first Consensus statement on chest EIT.
Steffen Leonhardt
Steffen Leonhardt was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1961. He holds a M.S. degree (1987) in computer engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, NY, USA, a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering (1989) and a Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in control engineering (1995) from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. Furthermore, he reveived the M.D. degree in medicine (2000) from J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, and a Dr. h. c. (Honorary) degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2018.
From 1999-2003, he was a R&D manager with Dräger Medical AG& Co KGaA, Lübeck, Germany. Since 2003, he has been a Full Professor and the Head of the Philips endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. In 2014, he became a full member of the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Science and the Aarts, Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2018, he has been appointed a Distinguished Professor at the IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Knut Möller
Prof. K. Möller is adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and assoc. Professor at the Technical Faculty of Freiburg in Germany. Furthermore, he is director of the Institute of Techn. Medicine (ITeM).
Uwe F. Pliquett
Uwe F. Pliquett received the diploma degree in electronic instrumentation and the Dr.-Ing. degree in measurement techniques in 1988 and 1991, respectively, from the Engineering College Mittweida, Germany. From 1993 to 1996 he was postdoctoral fellow at MIT, Cambridge, MA, working on transdermal drug delivery mediated by pulsed electric field. He continued the work on electroporation and bio-impedance measurements in Bielefeld where he received the habilitation in 2000. During 2005 he worked at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, for investigation of changes in biological material due to the application of pulsed electric field. In 2006 he joined the Institut für Bioprozess- und Analysenmesstechnik, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany, where he is currently working on characterization and manipulation of biological material using electrical and optical methods.
Christian Putensen
Christian Putensen is head of the Intensive Care Medicine Department at the University Hospital Bonn.