DrIngmar Schoen

Ingmar graduated with a diploma in biophysics from the Technical University Munich, Germany, in 2003. He completed his PhD in the field of neuroelectronic interfacing at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in 2006. After a short postdoc at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, he moved to ETH Zurich, Switzerland, to work as postdoc and later as a group leader in the Department of Health Sciences and Technologies. In 2017, he was awarded a StAR Research Lecturership from RCSI Dublin where he transitioned to a permanent post in 2021 and now hold the position of a Senior Lecturer.

Dr. Schoen held fellowships from the German Science Foundation, the Holcim Science Foundation, and a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship from the European Research Council. His research has been funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, and Octapharma. He has contributed to the establishment of the Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium at RCSI which is the leading facility for super-resolution microscopy in Ireland. He has published widely in leading multidisciplinary journals and has been an invited speaker at international seminars.