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Oliver Marseille, Ph.D. Dr. Marseille joined CircuLite in 2004 as Managing Director of CircuLite GmbH and has over 17 years experience in the development of circulatory assist devices. Prior to joining CircuLite, in the foundation of which Dr. Marseille was significantly involved, he had been head of research and development at Medos AG, a company specialized in the development, manufacturing and distribution of components for circulatory support. In this position Dr. Marseille had been in charge of numerous developments in the field of blood pumps and components for cardiopulmonary bypass, including devices used in paediatric cardiac surgery. CircuLite blood-pumps technology is based on Dr. Marseille’s internationally acknowledged scientific work. Dr. Marseille holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has completed his Ph.D. thesis on the development of rotary blood pumps at Helmholtz Institute, Aachen.
Wolfgang Kerkhoffs Mr. Kerkhoffs joined CircuLite in 2004 as Technical Director of CircuLite GmbH and has over 15 years experience in the development of circulatory assist devices. Prior to joining CircuLite, in the foundation of which Mr. Kerkhoffs was significantly involved, he had been in charge of the development of circulatory assist devices and systems for local organ perfusion at the Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Technologies. Mr. Kerkhoffs’ scientific research results have been published on an international level, their main focus being on the miniaturisation of a blood pump for long-term implantation, a work, that finally led to the foundation of CircuLite. Mr. Kerkhoffs is a precision mechanic by training and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Aachen University RWTH.
Kirk Lehmann Kirk A. Lehmann is an electrical engineer with 20 years of work experience spanning a variety of areas including ventricular assist device development, process control and defense systems. He is presently continuing his role as a manager of electrical and software engineering at CircuLite, GmbH located in Aachen, Germany. In this current role, he is responsible for engineering design, project management and commercialization of all electronic modules associated with the world’s smallest implantable circulatory support system (CircuLite Synergy® circulatory support Device). SensorART FP7 – 248763 DoW v10 14 January 2010 t h
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