Prof. EM. Dr.-Ing. JÜrgen Werner
| Jürgen Werner - Curriculum | |
| 1966 | Diploma Technical University Darmstadt, Faculty for Electrical Engineering. Thesis on control of chemical reactor systems with distributed parameters |
| 1966-1970 | Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Physiology of the Medical Faculty of the University Frankfurt/Main |
| 1970 | Doctor of Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University Darmstadt. Thesis on control of human motor systems |
| 1970-1975 | Scientific Assistant and Chief Engineer at the Institute of Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 1975 | Habilitation in „Physiology“ at the Faculty of Scientific Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum. Thesis on dynamics of human temperature regulation. |
| 1975 | Offer of a chair in Simulation Techniques of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Bremen (not accepted) |
| 1975 | Professor of Electrophysiology at the Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 1974-1986 | Project leader and Member of Board of the interdisciplinary Sonderforschungsbereich (Research Center) “Biological information acquisition and processing” |
| 1976-1985 | In addition to the educational duties in Physiology, Lecturer in Medical Informatics and Biomathematics |
| 1984-1985 | Dean of Faculty of Scientific Medicine. Main task: Merging of Faculty of Scientific Medicine and Faculty of Theoretical and Clinical Medicine |
| 1984-2005 | Member of Committee Biomedical Engineering of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). |
| 1984-2005 | Member of International Steering Committee Environmental Ergonomics (ICEE). 1998 – 2000: President |
| 1986 | Visiting Professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| 1986-1996 | University Professor and Head of Department of Biocybernetics of the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr-University |
| 1992 | Offer of a chair and Head of Center for Man-Machine-Systems of the Technical University of Berlin (not accepted) |
| 1993-2002 | Dean for Structure of the Medical Faculty. Main task: Cooperation and concentration within the University Clinics and integration with “Campus Medicine” |
| 1994-2002 | Member of International Union of Physiological Sciences Committee (IUPS) Thermal Physiology |
| 1996 | Appointment to the Chair of Biomedical Engineering of the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Head of Department |
| 1998-2005 | Member of Board of Academy of Public Health Bochum |
| 1999-2007 | Member of Board of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) |
| 2000-2002 | Inaugural coordinator of committee „Automatic control systems for medicine (AUTOMED)“ of the VDI / VDE Society of Sensor and Control Engineering and of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering |
| 2000-2004 | Member of Board of the Foundation “Cardiology” |
| 2001-2003 | Speaker of Working Group Biomedical Engineering |
| 2001-2005 | Member of Board of Competence Center Medical Techniques Ruhr (KMR) |
| 2003/2004 | Inaugural Director of University Center of Medical Techniques (UZMT) |
| 2006 | Professor Emeritus, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2007 | Scientific Expert, European Commission, Brussels |
Scientific activities
Interdisciplinary cooperation Medicine / Biology / Engineering / Mathematics / Physics.
Continuous grants by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) since 1974.
- Experimental and simulation studies on control mechanisms and information processing in the body (Biocybernetics)
- Human motor control loops; man-machine-systems
- Thermoregulation and fever
- Medical sensory and information techniques
- Neuronal signal processing
- Physiological measurements and biosignal processing
- Clinical and environmental ergonomics
- The organism under extreme stress
- Technical control loops for heat stroke prophylaxis
- Optimization of loco-regional hyperthermia therapy
- Electrotherapy of the heart and cardiovascular engineering
- Cardiac sensor techniques
- Rate adaptive pacemaker systems
- Automatic cardioverter / defibrillator
- Automatically controlled heart-lung-machines
- Perfusion systems for donor organs
- Cardio-circulatory simulation studies
Publications
More than 280 publications (see list of publications).
More than 160 national and international lectures.
Education
Lectures and courses
| 1966 – 1970 | Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Technical University Darmstadt, Faculty of Medicine, University of Frankfurt / Main. Biocybernetics, Medical Statistics, Physiology |
| 1970 - 2005 | Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences of Ruhr-University Bochum Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum. Physiology, Biocybernetics, Biomathematics, Medical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering |
Memberships
German Physiological Society (DPG) und International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS).
German Society of Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT im VDE).
Society of Sensor and Control Engineering (GMA im VDI/VDE) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
International Conference of Environmental Ergonomics.
German Society of Cardiology – cardiovascular research (DGK) and working group arrhythmia.
Reviewing activities
European Commission
German Research Association
Austrian Research Association
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Biomedizinische Technik / Biomedical Engineering
ASME Transactions on Biomechanical Engineering
American J. of Physiology
European J. of Physiology
J. of Physiology
J. of Applied Physiology
European J. of Applied Physiology
Biological Cybernetics
J. of Applied Human Sciences
J. Thermal Biology
at- Automatisierungstechnik
AUTOMATICA ( J. of IFAC)
and others
Organisation of conferences and workshops
| 2000 | International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics, Dortmund |
| 2001 | Annual Conference of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering (in cooperation with H. Ermert), Bochum |
| 2001 | Workshop „Automatic control systems for medicine“, Bochum |
| 2009 | Special Symposium “Systems- and control-theory meets systems- and neuro-physiology”, Matsue (Japan) |
| 2009 | Theme Chair World Congress “Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering”, Munich |
| 2011 | Special Symposium “Functional Models of Human Temperature Regulation”, Nafplio (Greece) |
Member in numerous national and international „Advisory Boards“.
