Prof. Walter Karlen
Universität Ulm
About the author
Walter Karlen is full professor for Biomedical Engineering at Ulm University (Germany) since May 2021. He is the director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology. From 2014 to 2020 he was an SNSF professor at ETH Zurich in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology where he founded and directed the Mobile Health Systems Laboratory. Previously, he held various research positions at the Biomedical Engineering Research Group of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; the pediatric anesthesia research group of BC Children’s Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI); the Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine Research Group of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada; and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL. Walter Karlen holds a Master degree in micro-engineering and a Docteur ès sciences (PhD) in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences from EPFL.
Prof. Karlen was an awardee of the Rising Stars in Global Health program of Grand Challenges Canada and in 2013, he was awarded the Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Prize for his accomplishments at UBC involving the research on mobile biomedical sensors for global health. Since 2016, he co-directs the Hochschulmedizin Zürich flagship project SleepLoop, a consortia that aims to develop and validate novel technologies for improving sleep and prevent sleep related disease. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE EMBC society.
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