Sven Ingebrandt did his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, and received his Dr. rer. nat. Degree (2001) from the University of Mainz, Germany. After one year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Frontier Research Program, RIKEN, Japan, he joined in 2002 the Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany, as a group leader. From 2008 to 2017, he was Professor of Biomedical Instrumentation at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2018, he moved to the RWTH Aachen University on a Chair Professorship for Micro- and Nanosystems, and he is Director of the Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering 1. He is working at the interface between biosensing, biotechnology, cell biology, nanotechnology, electronics, and micro and nanosystem technology.