Stanisa Raspopovic has been appointed Professor of Biomedical Engineering (§98) at MedUni Vienna with effect from July 2024. The neural engineering expert comes to Vienna from ETH Zurich.
Stanisa Raspopovic conducts research in the field of neural engineering, focusing on the connection of bionic prostheses with the nervous system and the communication of the neurons with electrical stimulation. He conducts preclinical and translational research in this field.
Raspopovic has set himself three focal points for his work at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. On the one hand, he will continue his research into bionic prostheses and their interaction with the nervous system. Another field of research is "Bioelectronics Medicine". Here, devices are being developed that use electronics to communicate with the nervous system, to replace the use of inefficient medications, for instance for pain treatment, or the vagus nerve stimulation to for metabolic disorders.. A third focus - and closely interwoven with the first two mentioned - is the use of AI and machine learning, to both develop the closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems and interpret the neural mechanisms from obtained data in a meaningful way.
In teaching, Stanisa Raspopovic wants to pass on the latest knowledge, including translational medicine, the basics of neural engineering, rehabilitation technology and the use of AI and digital tools in rehabilitation.
About the person
Stanisa Raspopovic studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pisa and completed his PhD studies at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), also in Pisa. He then worked as a Senior Scientist at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and as CTO at SensArs Neuroprosthetics, St. Suplice, Switzerland. Since 2018 he was Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at ETH Zurich.
Raspopovic conducted research with the support of an ERC Starting Grant ("FeelAgain") and several Swiss andinternational projects.
