Team
We combine experience from many areas to create revolutionary and cutting-edge technology
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Dr. Bálint Várkuti
Founder & Managing Director
- 11+ Years Experience in Neurotech and Medical Device Industry
- Former Global Business Unit Director for Functional Neurosurgery
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Dr. Saman Hagh Gooie
Vice-President - Lead Neural Interface
- 12+ Years Experience in Neuroprosthetics Product Development
- Sensory Neuroscience Research Engineer
- Quality Management / Lead ISO 13485 Implementer
- Intellectual Property Development
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Brian Blischak
President
- 20+ years experience in neuromodulation industry
- Led St.Jude Medical’s (now Abbott) DBS business through development, PD, ET and depression clinical studies and launch of its first 2 DBS product families
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Ricardo Smits Serena
Senior Software Engineer
- M.Sc. Biomedical Computing at TU München
- 6+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, 3+ years’ experience in Deep Learning and AI for Medicine, 2+ years’ experience in Brain-Computer interfaces
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GIJS VAN ELSWIJK, PHD
Scientific Lead
- 14+ Years R&D experience in both small healthcare startup environments and large corporations
- Made substantial contributions to several interventional and diagnostic applications for neurology
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Ljubomir Manola, PhD
Head of Clinical Affairs EU
- 14+ years experience in Medical Device and Neuromodulatioin industry, large and small companies
- Accomplishments in clinical affairs, research, therapy training and field roles supporting market entry and expansion
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Mohamad Atayi
Lead Software Engineer
- M.Sc. Neuroengineering at TU München
- 5+ years experience in Neurotechnology and Brain-Computer interfaces
- 4+ years experience in professional software development
- Passionate about using AI and deep learning in neuroscience
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Maithreyi Gopal
Senior Software Engineer
- Masters in Networking and Communication from North Carolina State University
- 10+ years of experience as a Software Developer for large Scale Distributed Software Systems
- 4+ years of Software Development Experience for Medical Devices
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Andrea Escartin
Software Engineer
- M.Sc. in Biomedical Computing at TU München.
- 3+ years experience in Software Development.
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Ana Funke
Executive Assistant
- B.A International Cultural & Business Studies
- 7+ years experience CRM
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Gabriella Miklos
Clinical Data Acquisition
- MD-PhD Student at Semmelweis University, Budapest
- 3+ Years Experience in Research, 1 Year Experience in Neuroimaging
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Emília Tóth
Clinical Data Acquisition
- PhD in electrophysiology, MSc in Electronic and Computer Engineering and Informatics specialist in bionic computing
- 8+ years of computational neurophysiology and neural signal processing
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Lukas Liemen
Working Student
- B.Sc. Applied Informatics at Hochschule Mainz
- 2+ years experience in professional software development
- 3+ years experience in Machine- and Deep Learning
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Kelsey Bower
Field Clinical Specialist
- 5+ years experience in computational neuromodulation research
- Biomedical engineer focused on translating neurotechnology
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Sonja Siebeneicher
Intern
- BSc in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from Tilburg University (Netherlands)
- 3+ years experience in Machine- and Deep Learning
- 1+ year experience in the medical AI field
