Profession
since 12.12.2015: Director of Business Creation, EIT Health e.V.
since 12.05.2015: Member of the supervisory board of ESTW AG
since 03.04.2013: CEO and co-founder of CiNNAMED GmbH
1.1. – 31.12.2015: CEO of HOELLER ELECTRONIC GmbH
13.12.2014 – 31.12.2015:
Co-founder and CFO of portabiles GmbH
01.12.2009 – 11.12.2015:
Founding member and managing director of the
Central Institute of Healthcare Engineering (ZIMT) at FAU
Research
Research focus: Dissertation on “Novel Techniques for Spatial Orientation in
Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)”
PhD thesis: ISBN 978-3832297664, online: http://www.kurtl.de/Diss.pdf
01/11/2011 – 31/12/2013:
Official BMBF Partner of the international thematic campaign
“Germany – Partner for Medical Technology”
01.10.2005 – 25.11.2010:
Dissertation at Pattern Recognition Lab (LME),
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
22.01.2009 -14.03.2009:
Visiting researcher: Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems
and Technology Engineering Research Center (CISST ERC)
at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, MD
15.06.2006 – 25.11.2010:
Associated to “Minimally invasive Interdisciplinary Therapeutical
Intervention” research group MITI, Klinikum rechts der Isar, and
Graduate School of Information Science in Health, TU München
23.09.2010: Patent WO2010105946 (A1) – Endoscope and Imaging Device
also published as DE102009013761 (A1), ES2384949 (T3),
EP2323541 (A1), EP2323541 (B1), AT550982 (T)
Publications: 24 journal articles and conference papers:
www.kurtl.de/publications
Scholarships: Hanns-Seidel Foundation
(HSS postgraduate scholarship 10/2006 – 09/2010)