Maria Asplund is Professor in Bioelectronic Microtechnology at Chalmers University of Technology and Director of the Chalmers Area of Advance in Health Engineering. Marias research expertise includes flexible microtechnology for the neurotechnology domain, tissue-device interaction and electronic biomaterials. After completing her PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, 2009) she led her own research group at the University of Freiburg, Germany (Department of Microsystems Engineering, 2011-22) and was visiting professor at Luleå University of Technology (2020-2023). Maria Asplund’s team specializes in materials for efficient and safe charge injection over the entire parametric range used clinically, from promotion of wound healing to brain implants for visual restoration. She is vice chair for the Swedish Society for Medical Engineering, and an editor of Journal of Neural Engineering and of Bioelectronic Medicine. She is also co-founder of the MedTech Startup Bioelectrix Sweden.
