Dr. Alexander von Lühmann
Dr. Alexander von Lühmann
Research Group Lead
Alexander von Lühmann is currently the head of the independent research group “Intelligent Biomedical Sensing (IBS)” at BIFOLD, Machine Learning Dept, TU Berlin. He is also a visiting researcher at the Neurophotonics Center of Boston University (BU NPC) and Chief Scientific Officer at NIRx Medical Technologies. Previously, he was R&D director at NIRx, post-doc at BU NPC, visiting researcher at the Martinos Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, and Chief Technology Officer of Crely, a US-Singapore-based healthcare startup. He received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction in 2018 from Technische universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2014/11.
| 2022 | Early Investigator Award, Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (SfNIRS) |
| 2019 | BIMoS PhD Award, Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research (BIMoS), TU Berlin |
| 2018 | Klee-Award (3rd), German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) |
| 2014 - 2018 | Research scholarships by ML Department, TU Berlin | Scholarship + Research fellowship at BIMoS TU Berlin |
| 2012 | Winner Innovation Academy Biotechnology, BMBF |
The IBS lab develops instrumentation and machine learning methods for unobtrusive sensing of signals from the brain and in the body, and extraction of relevant biomarkers. We try to assess mental states (e.g., stress or fatigue) but also physiological health and risk-factors. Greatly simplified: We are working towards a smartwatch for the brain.
DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung | German Institute for Standardization)
SfNIRS (Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy)
VDE (Verband Der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik| Association of Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies)
OPTICA (formerly OSA)
OHBM (Organization for Human Brain Mapping)