Soft, implantable bioelectronic interfaces

24th November 2021

Timing : 1 pm EST

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Soft bioelectronics focus on the engineering of electronic systems with human-like mechanical signature. Such systems are becoming powerful tools for applications in human-machine interaction and offer promising perspective in e-health and biomedical instrumentation. Their design combines materials and assembly processes borrowed from the MEMS and thin-film electronics domains with bio-inspired materials and novel additive fabrication techniques. Soft bioelectronics also require the implementation of customized and multimodal characterization on the bench prior to in vivo/on-body validation.
This talk will report on a methodical approach to design, manufacture and test soft implantable bioelectronic interfaces, and illustrate these concepts with designs from the lab tailored to neuroprosthetic medicine.




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Stéphanie P. Lacour
Full Professor, Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology
EPFL, Switzerland
Stéphanie P. Lacour holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology at the School of Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from INSA de Lyon, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University (USA) and the University of Cambridge (UK). She joined EPFL in 2011. Since January 2017, she is full professor in Microengineering and Bioengineering at EPFL. She is a co-founding member and current director of EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics, located at EPFL satellite – Campus Biotech in Geneva.
She is the recipient of the 2006 MIT TR35, the 2011 Zonta award, and she was selected as one of the 2015 WEF Young Global Leaders. She was awarded the ERC Starting Grant (2011), ERC POC Grants (2016 & 2018) and the SNSF Consolidator grant (2016)