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Niels Kuster

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Niels Kuster

Niels Kuster (born June 19, 1957, in Olten, Switzerland) is a Swiss electrical engineer and Professor.[1] The focus of his research is on the electromagnetic near field, basics for assessing/using the interaction of electromagnetic fields with organisms, and physiological simulations as part of biophysics.

Early life and education

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Kuster grew up in Olten, in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn, where he attended elementary and middle school. After graduating from Gymnasium with the "Matura Type C" (concentration in mathematics and physical sciences) diploma, he studied at the ETH Zurich and graduated in 1984 with a degree in electrical engineering. Starting in 1985, he pursued doctoral work in the Laboratory for Field Theory and Microwave Technology (IFH) at the ETH Zurich under the direction of Heinrich Baggenstos, during which time he was a teaching and research assistant. He defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled "Dosimetric assessment of EM sources near biological bodies by computer simulations",[2] in 1992.

Career

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During his post-doctoral studies at IFH in 1992, Kuster also worked at the Electromagnetics Laboratory of Motorola Inc in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, then, in 1993, he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at the ETH Zurich. Kuster co-founded Schmid and Partners Engineering AG (SPEAG) in December 1994 as a spin-off company of the ETH-Zurich, together with Thomas Schmid, Kurt Schmid, Martin Schmid, Oliver Egger, and Klaus Meier, with the main objective to further develop and commercialize the Dosimetric Assessment SYstem (DASY), the first electromagnetic near-field scanner optimized for testing the compliance of mobile communications devices with safety limits. In 1998, he was a visiting professor and lecturer at the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. In 1999, he founded the Swiss non-profit Foundation for Research on Information Technology in Society (IT'IS). Kuster founded ZMT Zurich MedTech AG (ZMT) in 2006 as a spin-off company of the ETH-Zurich and the IT'IS Foundation. He was an adjunct professor at the ETH Zurich from 2001 to 2022 and headed the BioElectromagnetics research group of the ETH's Laboratory for Integrated Systems. His main achievements are in the areas of measurement and simulation methods in the electromagnetic near field, safety aspects of wireless communications[3][4][5] and magnetic resonance imaging,[6][7][8] virtual human[9][10][11] and animal models[12] for investigations of anatomy-dependent interactions and optimization of therapies via computer simulation (e.g., in silico clinical trials[13] and neurostimulation[14][15]).

Participation in start-up companies

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Niels Kuster has been involved in the founding of several start-up companies in Switzerland and internationally:

  • 1994: Schmid & Partner Engineering AG (SPEAG) together with Thomas Schmid, Kurt Schmid, Martin Schmid, Oliver Egger, and Klaus Meier
  • 1999: MaxWave AG, co-founder
  • 2006: ZMT Zurich MedTech AG, co-founder with the IT'IS team for medical research
  • 2011: Thessaloniki Software Solutions S.A. (THESS), co-founder
  • 2011: BNNSPEAG, a joint venture between SPEAG and the Indian company BNN Communication Engineers
  • 2011: SCALK, a joint venture between SPEAG and the South Korean company Dymstec Co., Ltd
  • 2019: TI Solutions AG, a joint venture to foster temporal interference (TI) research

Other activities

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Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ↑ "Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering: Prof. em. Dr. Niels Kuster". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  2. ↑ Kuster, Niels (1992). Research Collection, Doctoral Thesis. ETH Zurich (Doctoral Thesis). doi:10.3929/ethz-a-000643952. hdl:20.500.11850/140687. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Guidance for exposure design of human studies addressing health risk evaluations of mobile phones". Bioelectromagnetics. 25 (7): 524–529. 16 September 2004 – via Wiley Online Library.
  4. ↑ "Assessment Methods for Demonstrating Compliance With Safety Limits of Wireless Devices Used in Home and Office Environments". IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 49 (3): 519–525. 31 August 2007 – via IEEE Xplore.
  5. ↑ "Limitations of Incident Power Density as a Proxy for Induced Electromagnetic Fields". Bioelectromagnetics. 41 (5): 348–359. 14 May 2020 – via Wiley Online Library.
  6. ↑ "Heating and Safety Concerns of the Radio-Frequency Field in MRI". Current Radiology Reports. 3 (12): article number 45. 28 October 2015 – via Springer Nature Link.
  7. ↑ "Rapid method for thermal dose-based safety supervision during MR scans". Bioelectromagnetics. 36 (5): 398–407. 11 May 2015 – via Wiley Online Library.
  8. ↑ "Induced radiofrequency fields in patients undergoing MR examinations: insights for risk assessment". Physics in Medicine & Biology. 66 (18): 185014. 15 September 2021 – via IOPScience.
  9. ↑ "The Virtual Family—development of surface-based anatomical models of two adults and two children for dosimetric simulations". Physics in Medicine & Biology. 55 (2): N23. 17 December 2009 – via IOPScience.
  10. ↑ "Development of a new generation of high-resolution anatomical models for medical device evaluation: the Virtual Population 3.0". Physics in Medicine & Biology. 59 (18): 5287. 21 August 2014 – via IOPScience.
  11. ↑ "MIDA: A Multimodal Imaging-Based Detailed Anatomical Model of the Human Head and Neck". PLOS One. 10 (4): e0124126. 22 April 2015 – via PLOS One.
  12. ↑ "Computational animal phantoms for electromagnetic dosimetry". in Computational Anatomical Animal Models: Methodological developments and research applications. Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing. 4 December 2018. ISBN 978-0-7503-1344-5.
  13. ↑ "Precision non-invasive brain stimulation: an in silico pipeline for personalized control of brain dynamics". Journal of Neural Engineering. 22 (2): 026061. 22 April 2025 – via IOPScience.
  14. ↑ "Targeted neurotechnology restores walking in humans with spinal cord injury". Nature. 563: 65–71. 31 October 2018 – via Nature.
  15. ↑ "An implantable system to restore hemodynamic stability after spinal cord injury". Nature Medicine. 31: 2946–2957. 17 September 2025 – via Nature.
  16. ↑ "KUSTER Niels". International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  17. ↑ "TC 106". International Electrotechnical Commission. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  18. ↑ "ISO/TS 10974:2018 Assessment of the safety of magnetic resonance imaging for patients with an active implantable medical device". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  19. ↑ "IEEE Fellows Directory: Niels Kuster". IEEE. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  20. ↑ "The Newest d'Arsonval Award Winner is ... Niels Kuster!". The Bioelectromagnetics Society. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  21. ↑ "New Senior Member 2014". Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
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