Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Steffen Leonhardt
Chair holder
- Building: Helmholtz-Institute
- Room: 0.04
- Telephone: +49 241 80-23211
- Fax: +49 241 80-623211
- E-mail: medit@hia.rwth-aachen.de
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Education
| 1982 - 1989 | Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering, with a major in Control Engineering, from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1985 - 1987 | M.S. in Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA |
| 1989 - 1998 | Medical School (part-time), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Final year rotations at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (supervised by Prof. Burkhard Lachmann, M.D., Ph.D.). |
| 1995 | Dr.-Ing. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Rolf Isermann, Ph.D. Topic: "Model-based Fault Detection using Neural Networks - Supervision of Shock Absorbers and Diesel-Injection Systems" (in German), Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Series 12: automotive technologies, No 295, VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1996 |
| 2000 | Dr. med. degree from the Medical Faculty of Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Topic: "Automated Lung Function Diagnosis of spontaneously breathing infants" (in German, short version). Medizintechnik, ISBN: 978-3-8265-7850-2, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2000. |
Professional Career
| 1990 - 1998 | Ph.D. student and research assistant, later Post-Doc at the Institute for Automatic Control (Prof. Rolf Isermann), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. |
| 1999 - 2003 | R&D Manager at Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG, Lübeck, Germany. |
| since 2003 | Philips endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology, Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Publications
Prizes and Awards
| 2024 | VDI Plaque of Honour |
| 2024 | Elected a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) |
| 2023 | Admission to the German "National Academy of Science and Engineering" (acatech) |
| 2018 | Appointment as "Distinguished Professor" at the IIT Madras, Chennai, India |
| 2018 | Doctor honoris causa of CTU Prague, Article |
| 2015 - 2016 | Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) |
| 2014 | Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts |
| 2013 | Member of the board of trustee of the Eduard-Rhein-Foundation |
| 2009 | BMBF-Innovation price for Medical Engineering 2009 (together with the Chair of Medical Engineering) |
| 2002 | Faculty Price: Best Medical Thesis of the Year 2001, Award of the Medical Faculty |
| 1997 | 1. Price in the medical software challenge "Medical Software '97" at MEDICA fair 1997, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1992 | 2. Price in the medical software challenge "Medical Software '92" at MEDICA fair 1992, Düsseldorf, Germany |
Stipends and Research Visits
| 2019 | Sabbatical at the IMES of MIT in Boston |
| 2019 | Sabbatical at the Clinic for Surgical Intensive Care Medicine of the UK Aachen (May - July 2019) |
| 2019 | Sabbatical at IIT Madras, Chennai (March-April 2019) |
| 2016 | Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) - Scholarship, Guest Lecturer at the IIT Madras, Chennai, India |
| 2010 | Sabbatical, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, U.K. (April – Aug. 2010) |
| 2010 | Research scholarship, Heinrich-Hertz-Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1985 - 1988 | Student grant of the German National Academic Foundation ("Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes") |
| 1985 - 1987 | Fulbright Scholarship for studying in the U.S. |
Memberships
Scientific Societies
| The German Association of Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) within VDE |
| VDI/VDE-Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA) within VDE/VDI |
| IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) |
| IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) |
Scientific Positions and Duties
| since 2024 | Member of the DFG Review Board 407 "Systems Engineering", subject area 4.41-06 "Biomedical Systems Technology" |
| since 2023: | Admission to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) |
| since 2021: | International Acadmic Committee, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiatong University (SJTU) |
| since 2021: | Member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee of Cardiopulmonary Systems and Physiology-Based Engineering |
| since 2019: | Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Bioprocessing and Analytical Measurement Techniques (iba) |
| 2015-2018: | President of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism |
| since 2013: | Symposium Intensive Medicine + Intensive Care, Bremen: Member of the program committee, design of the technology track |
| since 2010 | Bremer Symposium Intensivmedizin + Intensivpflege, Member of the program committee, responsible for the track “technology” |
| since 2011: | Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBCAS) |
| since 2009: | Affiliate Faculty at the School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA |
| since 2008: | Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), formely IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB) Steering Committee of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems |
| since 2006: | Associate Editor of the German Biomedical Engineering Journal "Biomedizinische Technik" |
| 2004 - 2024 | Liason Officer of the German National Academic Foundation at RWTH Aachen University |
| since 2000: | Scientific Advisory Board of the German VDI/VDE-Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA) since 2022 head of department 5 "Anwendung der Automatisierungstechnik" |