Christian Hofer, PhD DI
Division of Research and Development,
Otto Bock HealthCare Products
Kaiserstrasse 39, 1070 Vienna, AUSTRIA

Phone.: +43 1 523 3786123

E-Mail: christian.hofer@ottobock.com
» www.ottobock.at

Christian Hofer  is a clinical research coordinator for Ottobock, where he currently leads the company’s TMR projects. He attended the Vienna University of Technology, where in 1995 he was awarded a Dipl.-Ing. Degree in the field of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (Specialization: Industrial Electronics and Controls) and in 2008 a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Since 1995 he is also a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Electrical Stimulation and Physical Rehabilitation at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation within the Vienna Wilhelminenspital. His research interests include restoring movement through advanced rehabilitation technology, development of diagnostic tools for assessing the status of skeletal muscle, restoring function in spinal cord injured patients through functional electrical stimulation (FES) of innervated and denervated muscles, and novel measurement techniques for biological signals.