Erwin Keeve

Erwin Keeve (born February 3, 1965 ) is a German engineer and computer scientist. He is Professor of Surgical Navigation and Robotics at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin .

His work focuses on applied research and development for image-guided and robot-assisted surgery. For his research, he was awarded the Medical Technology Innovation Prize in 2010 and the High-Tech Champions Award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2014. He is the co-founder of several medical technology companies and has researched and taught at Oslo University Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston , among others .

Erwin Keeve studied electrical engineering and received his doctorate in 1996 under Stanford professor Bernd Girod and Max Planck director Hans-Peter Seidel in electrical engineering and computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . During this time he was a member of the Graduate School Three-Dimensional Image Analysis and Synthesis of the German Research Foundation . He then switched to the Image Guided Therapy Program at Harvard Medical School with a North American scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service .

In 1999 he returned to Germany and built the '' Surgical Systems Laboratory '' at the caesar research center in Bonn, which he managed until 2007. After a visiting professorship at the Interventional Center of the University Hospital Oslo, he accepted a professorship for Surgical Navigation and Robotics at the Charité University Medical Center Berlin in 2008. At the same time, he headed the medical technology department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology until 2017. Keeve is the inventor / co-inventor of more than 25 patents and author / co-author of over 250 publications.

Erwin Keeve is married and has a daughter and a son. He lives with his family in Potsdam.

Web links

• Publications by Erwin Keeve on Google Scholar
• Erwin Keeve on the website of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin