Prof. Dr. Kristen Kozielski

Academic Career and Research Areas

Kristen Kozielski works with new materials for wireless communication with the brain and nervous system. Her research focuses on understanding and optimizing materials for controlled, electronic signaling to and from the brain. The goal of this work is to contribute to neurotechnologies that are minimally invasive, and possibly implanted with no surgical intervention. Her multidisciplinary group works in materials science, biomaterials, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, and neurobiology.

Prof. Kozielski completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2019 as a group leader. She has been at TUM since 2021, where she is an Assistant Professor of Neuroengineering Materials in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At TUM, she is also the Program Director of the Elite Master’s Program in Neuroengineering. 

Awards

• Therapeutic Pipeline Program, Michael J. Fox Foundation (2022 - 2024)
• Young Investigator Group Preparation Program, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2019 - 2021)
• Whitaker International Program Postdoctoral Scholarship (2016 - 2018)
• Ruth L. Krischstein F31 NIH NRSA Predoctoroal Fellowship, US National Cancer Institute (2014 - 2016)
• NIH Cancer Nanobiotechnology Training Center Fellowship (2012 - 2014)