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Hugo França, PhD
R&D Electrical Engineer Manager
Hugo brings expertise in the design of integrated circuits for scientific and medical applications.
Hugo joined the Wyss Center as an Electronics Engineer in November 2018. He previously worked for CERN for more than seven years on the development of electronics for particle detectors.
He was also a visiting scientist at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan. He later joined EPFL as a researcher where he contributed to multiple projects in the medical domain. He has also collaborated with two startups.
Hugo holds a PhD in Technological Physics Engineering from the IST-Lisbon (PT), and a degree in Electronics from the University of Porto (PT).
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12.10.2022New horizons in neural recording systems
New Wyss Center whitepaper reveals first neural signals recorded by the ABILITY brain-computer interface system and the next steps to human clinical trials to restore communication and independence for people with severe paralysis.
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08.10.2020Wyss Center partners with Coat-X to advance ultra-thin coating for use in active medical implants
The flexible coating technology could pave the way for miniaturized devices in the human body.
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