Biographies of Authors and Editors
Wintermantel, Erich M.D., Ph.D.
Professor. Formerly Head of Biocompatible Materials Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich; now of:
Zentralinstitut für Medizinaltechnik der TU München
Boltzmannstrasse 15, D-85748 Garching, Germany
E-mail: wintermantel@zimt.tum.de
Web-site: www.zimt.ze.tu-muenchen.de
Erich Wintermantel studied medicine at the University of Tübingen in Germany and earned an M.D. Ph.D. degree, having developed a new rapid microvascular surgical technique. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Montreal and the University of Toulouse, France. Following clinical training in neurosurgery, in abdominal and orthopedic surgery at university hospitals, he joined the ETH Zurich in 1986 as Senior Assistant and Lecturer in the design and manufacturing of medical implants and devices. He received his habilitation at the ETH in 1991 in biomaterials engineering, and was a Visiting Scientist at MIT in 1991 and 1992. He became Full Professor at ETH Zurich in 1992, Chairman of Biocompatible Materials Science and Engineering and Head of the ETH Institute of Construction and Design Engineering. His research is focused on clinically applicable implants, instruments, or device systems. Since mid 2000, he is Director of the Zentralinstitut für Medizintechnik, Technical University Munich, Germany.
