Ivan Vujaklija

Ivan has obtained his PhD degree at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2016 while working as a research assistant at the Institute of Neurorehabilitation Systems at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Germany.  From 2012 until 2014 he worked for Ottobock Healthcare GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany, one of the world’s leading prosthetic manufacturers. In 2014 and 2015 he was a research fellow at the Arizona State University and the Medical University of Vienna respectively. Before joining Aalto, he has been working as a research associate at the Department of Bioengineering at the Imperial College London. Dr. Vujaklija was a part of a team of researchers that pioneered techniques for non-invasive spinal interfacing for rehabilitation applications. The same team has successfully introduced a novel, technology driven surgical paradigm for limb reconstruction which is now becoming a clinical state of the art.