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Hahn-Schickard Inside: Neuronal probes under Thomas Mann’s palm trees

Insights into the activities of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli during his fellowship at Thomas Mann House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA

The Thomas Mann Fellowships are aimed at personalities whose projects deal with fundamental questions of our time that are relevant on both sides of the Atlantic. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli holds the Fritz Hüttinger Chair of Microelectronics at IMTEK and is one of the directors of Hahn-Schickard Villingen-Schwenningen. For Hahn-Schickard Inside he gives us insights into his time in California:

For my stay at the Thomas Mann House, I envisioned to deepen and expand our work in the field of neural probes for deep-brain applications.
The time in Pacific Palisades offered the opportunity for an intensive exchange, especially with partners from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which went far beyond the usual communication by e-mail or meetings at conferences. This led to a completely different understanding of the mutual research priorities. For me, conversations with colleagues at the local universities (especially at UCLA) were very informative. With a lecture on my research project I was also able to present my own work in the field of neural probes to a broad professional audience at UCLA. This led to further contacts and discussions, especially with some neurologists at UCLA, which brought important new clues for my project. These contacts and discussions have resulted in new approaches and cooperations for the use of neural probes.
The panel discussion "The Science and Ethics of Brain Implants" gave me the opportunity to discuss with colleagues from the University of Southern California the fundamental advantages, the far-reaching consequences and the pros and cons of brain implants with an interested and diverse audience.

I was particularly pleased to give a lecture on my research project in Thomas Mann's living room. It was a pleasure to discuss this topic with friends and neighbors of the house from both the medical and the technical side and to deal with the different aspects and views.
Because of the proximity to San Diego, it was also possible to attend a conference of neuroscientists, which gave me additional and new insights into the applications of neural probes. Further contacts, both scientific and industrial, were established and are now  pursued on both sides of the Atlantic.

More information about the goals of my stay and my research focus can be obtained from these interviews held at the Thomas Mann House:

Talks

  • 08.11.2018 Panel discussion

"The Science and Ethics of Brain Implants"
@ Harman Academy for Polymathic Study of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
https://polymathic.usc.edu/event/almost-total-recall-science-and-ethics-brain-implants

  • 19.11.2018 Talk and Presentation

“A Fully Immersible Deep-Brain Probe with an Analog-to-Digital-Converter under each of the 144 Electrodes for Parallel Neural Recording”
@ University of California, Los Angeles
https://www.vatmh.org/en/eventreader/20181109_yiannos_manoli.html

  • 14.12.2018 Talk and Presentation

“Surveying the brain - picoampere, nanovolt, micrometer - that's all it takes!”
@ Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles
https://www.vatmh.org/en/eventreader/lecture-surveying-the-brain-picoampere-nanovolt-micrometer-thats-all-it-takes.html

 

 

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli vor dem Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
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