Klaus Peter Koch

Klaus Peter Koch was born in Wadern, Germany, in 1972. He studied electrical engineering and received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) from the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbruecken, in 1997. He finished the Ph.D. degree at the University in Saarbruecken, in 2003. From 1998 to 2007, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering. He was Head of the neural prosthetics group at the same institute from 2004 onwards. In 2007 and 2008, he became a Full Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and since 2008 he has been a Full Professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany. His research interests include system integration for neural implants, design and simulation of electrodes for recording and stimulation, active implantable electronics and artifact models.