Philipp Rostalski

Philipp Rostalski (Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering, with a focus on measurement and control from the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, in 2009. In 2005, he joined the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, where he worked on the interface of algebraic geometry, optimization, and control. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded with the ETH Medal for Outstanding Ph.D. theses. In 2009, he joined the Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, where he was working on problems in applied mathematics, most notably on convex algebraic geometry. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Research Engineer and the Project Manager of mechatronics applications with the Dräger Research Unit, Lübeck, Germany. He was responsible for projects in signal processing and control, with a focus on pneumatic systems and respiratory care. Since 2015, he has been the Director of the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck. Since 2020, he has been the Director with the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Lübeck.