Prof. Thomas Stieglitz received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1993, a Ph.D. and a habilitation degree in 1998 and 2003 from the University of Saarland, Germany, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert, Germany, where he established the Neural Prosthetics Group. Since 2004, he has been a full professor of Biomedical Microtechnology at the University of Freiburg, Germany (Albert-Ludwig-University), in the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the Faculty of Engineering, and serves as co-spokesperson of the Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools and the Intelligent Machine Brain Interfacing Technology (IMBIT) Center of the university. His research interests include fundamental as well as translational aspects of neural interfaces and implants, biocompatible assembling and packaging, and brain-machine interfaces. He has co-authored over 190 peer-reviewed journal publications and over 330 conference proceedings and holds 30 patents. He is co-founder and scientific consultant of CorTec GmbH and neuroloop GmbH, two spin-off companies.