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Person

Dr. med., Universitätsprofessor

Stefan Jockenhövel

Dept. Biohybrid & Medical Textiles

Institute of Applied Medical Engineering

Address

Building: CBMS

Room: 309

Pauwelsstr. 20

52074 Aachen

Contact

workPhone

Phone: +49 241 80 47478

Fax: +49 241 80 82454

Email: jockenhoevel@ame.rwth-aachen.de

Website

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Professor Dr. med. Stefan Jockenhoevel holds the distinguished NRW-Schwerpunktprofessor BioTex – Biohybrid & Medical Textiles (BioTex) which builds the bridge between material and engineering sciences and (bio)medicine.

Furthermore Professor Jockenhövel is the director of the Aachen-Maastricht-Institute for Biobased Materials AMIBM, a collaboration between the RWTH Aachen University, Maastricht University and Fraunhofer IME.

The AMIBM institute is located at the Brigthland Chemelot Campus in Geleen/Sittard, NL and develops novel biomaterials from biomass towards application.

Prof. Jockenhövel has studied medicine at the RWTH Aachen University and earned his doctor degree in the field of artificial lung support.

From 1995 to 2005 he has clinically work in the field of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the University hospitals in Aachen and Zurich and the heart centers in Luxembourg and Lahr/Baden.

Since end of 2005 he is focusing on the research and development of viable biohybrid implants.

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