Gerald A. Urban
Microsystems engineering
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Gerald Urban is a full professor of microsystems engineering at the University of Freiburg. He is a director of the Freiburg Media Research Center and elected member of the academic senate of the university. His research interests are dedicated to the development of chemo and biosensor systems for clinical and system-biological applications. Gerald Urban studied physics at the Vienna University of Technology. Subsequently he worked on his PhD thesis at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the TU Vienna. In 1985 he founded the OSC in Cleveland, Ohio and Vienna. In 1986 and 1987 he was a post-doc at the neurophysiological department in Münster, Germany. From 1990 till 2002 he was the scientific director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Biomedical Microengineering in Vienna. He graduated as a full professor at the University of Freiburg in 1997. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Dean of the Department of Applied Science at the University of Freiburg.
Research Interest
His research interests are dedicated to the development of chemo and biosensor systems for clinical and system-biological applications.
Publications
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L. Ledernez, F. Olcaytug, GA Urban, HK Yasuda Magnetically Enhanced 15 kHz Glow Discharge of Methane Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing Vol. 4.1 (2007) i-xiv, Plasma Chem. And Plasma Process., 2007, Vol. 27.6, pp.659-667
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The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for the determination of electrochemical synthesis conditions on the basis of PEDOT bilayers, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical 123, Sens. Actuators B., 2007, Vol. 123 , pp.379-383
