How can the activities in the brain be examined and observed more closely? Professor Caroline Murawski holds the Chair of Biomedical Sensor Technology at the TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD) and is Director of the Institute of Solid State Electronics. On June 19, she can be experienced live as part of the university-wide inaugural lecture from 4:40 pm in the Fritz-Foerster-Bau of TU Dresden, Mommsenstraße 6.

Prof. Murawski's research provides new insights into the functioning of the brain and the development of effective therapies for neurological diseases. To this end, she uses precise light-based neuronal stimulation and detection using miniature organic LEDs and photodetectors. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and combines electrical engineering and biomedicine with physics and chemistry. In particular, she researches optoelectronic components for the stimulation and detection of neurons using optogenetics and fluorescence imaging.

Prof. Murawski has been part of TUD since 2024. Prior to this, she headed the Organophotonic Sensor Technology junior research group at the Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik Meinsberg e. V. for six years, of which she was deputy director. Research visits have taken her to the University of St. Andrews in Great Britain. Prof. Murawski studied in Dresden and completed her doctorate in applied photophysics at the TUD.