Stimulation and Recording Electrodes for Neural Prostheses

Naser Pour Aryan received a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Ulm, Germany, in December 2013. Since January 2008 he has been working as a researcher on the retinal prosthesis project at the University of Ulm, in cooperation with the company Retina Implant AG in Reutlingen, Germany. His main task has been studying and characterizing neural stimulation and recording electrodes. Dr. Pour Aryan's main field of interest is electrochemistry and its application in medical engineering.


Albrecht Rothermel (M'90, SM'95) received the Dipl.-Ing.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Dortmund,
and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Duisburg, both Germany, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. From 1985 to 1989, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, Germany, working on integrated digital CMOS and BiCMOS circuits for high-speed applications. From 1990 to 1993, he was with Thomson Consumer Electronics (Thomson multimedia), Corporate Research, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. He worked on digital signal processing concepts for present and future TV and HDTV sets. Then as Manager of the IC design
laboratory, he was involved in analog and mixed circuit design for audio and video. Since 1994, he has been with the Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, Germany, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include analog and mixed signal circuits for various applications including implantable
sensors and stimulators. Dr. Rothermel has published more than 130 papers, book chapters and patents. He received the 1985 outstanding young scientist award of the German VDE, the 1991 outstanding publication award of the German GME, the 2003 award for remarkable cooperation between industry and university, and the 2006 best paper award of the IEEE ICCE.