The INTEGRABRAIN Team
Professor Ivan Minev
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Professor of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies
Bio: Ivan Minev studied Physics at Imperial College London graduating in 2008. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 2012. Working in the group of Stephanie Lacour, he was involved in developing stretchable electronics. Between 2012 and 2016, Ivan was post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), developing soft implants for the nervous system. From 2016 to 2019, he was research group leader at the Biotechnology Center of Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Ivan joined the University of Sheffield in October 2019.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/department/people/academic/ivan-minev
Dr Thomas Paterson
Bio: Joined the IntegraBrain project in early 2020 and has research interests in bioelectronics, additive manufacturing, biomaterials and microbiology. His current project involves using additive manufacturing to produce multimodal soft neural probes to match native tissue mechanical properties. The aim is to combine electrical sensing & stimulation, drug-eluting and focal cooling into a single probe, engineered for long term implantation into the brain with minimal chronic rejection.
In 2017 he was awarded a PhD in bone tissue engineering at the University of Sheffield and has since conducted research in the departments of Dentistry, Materials Engineering and now Automatic Control & Systems Engineering. Previous projects have included working on altering the mechanical properties of cornea implants and producing biomaterials with inbuilt antimicrobial properties for infected wound healing.
He is also an over-ambitious amateur ultramarathon runner and can often be found in Sheffield’s Peak District on evenings and weekends.
Spencer Moore
Bio: Spencer is a PhD student that has been working on the IntegraBrian project since the start of 2020. Having been awarded an MEng in electronic engineering by the University of Surrey before moving to the Sheffield, his interests lie in neural interfacing, embedded signal processing, bioelectronics, and additive manufacturing.
His project focus is on the development of the electronic infrastructure of the IntegraBrain project. This includes the design and implementation of the interfaces control, signal acquisition, and neuronal actuation systems. The aim is to combine these systems into a singular multimodal interface that can accurately detect and suppress epileptic activity.
Dr Aruã Clayton Da Silva
Bio: Born and raised in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, my research career started with a technical-vocational course of Chemistry at the State Center for Technological Education Paula Souza (2009), followed by B.Sc. undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the State University of Londrina (2013). I was a visiting researcher at the University of Wollongong (Australia) for one year (2017-2018). My Ph.D. of Chemistry by University of São Paulo (2020). Currently a postdoctoral researcher associate in Implantable Bioelectronics funded by the ERC IntegraBrain project at the Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department of University of Sheffield, UK.