Patrick Heise is a researcher, lecturer, and founder. At the Department Life Science Engineering at THM , he will be working in the field of biomedical electronics, including rapid digital tests.
Prof. Dr. Patrick Heise earned his master's degree in physical engineering and photonics from the Technical University of Wildau. He completed his doctorate on "Design and Characterization of a Novel Integrated Ring Resonator" at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In his thesis, submitted in 2017, he describes the development of novel electro-optical ring resonators, which are used, among other things, in medical technology for rapid digital tests.
He remained committed to this field and researched biomedical electronics and optics for biosensors as a scientist, project manager, and group leader at the Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) in Frankfurt/Oder. He eventually founded the startup "HyPhoX," specializing in lab-on-a-chip—a laboratory on a microchip. He has served as Managing Director there since 2023.
For this technology transfer from the laboratory to application, combined with his involvement in 15 patent applications, Patrick Heise was awarded the Leibniz Association's Founding Prize in 2021 and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy's Founding Prize for Digital Innovations in 2024. He has received further awards for his extensive publications. In addition to numerous journal and conference contributions, he has authored five specialist books and three monographs for higher education.
He calls university teaching his passion: Since 2014, he has held a teaching position at the TH Wildau. Since 2017, he has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Rome. He completed his habilitation in experimental physics in January 2023 and has since been a private lecturer at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Prof. Heise is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the German Society for Applied Optics. Through his previous EU projects, he brings valuable contacts to renowned research institutes in Europe to the Department Life Science Engineering – including imec in Ghent (Belgium), the Tyndall Institute in Cork (Ireland), and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Rome (Italy).