Walter Karlen MSc, PhD

Walter Karlen received his M.Sc. degree in micro-engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2005. He obtained the degree of Docteur ès sciences (PhD) from the doctoral program in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences of EPFL in April 2009. For the duration of his PhD, Walter Karlen was a research assistant at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems under the supervision of Prof. Dario Floreano.

From 2009 to 2014 Dr. Walter Karlen was a post-doctoral researcher at the Deparment of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, the research group of the Department of Anesthesia of BC Children's Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada where he worked on mobile phone implementations of biomedical sensors for global health applications. From 2005 to 2009 Walter Karlen was a scientific consultant for physiological monitoring in extreme environments for Solar Impulse S.A., Switzerland.