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Dr. Philipp Gutruf is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona. He received his postdoctoral training in the John A Rogers Research Group at Northwestern University and received his PhD in 2016 at RMIT University (Australia). In the last 5 years he has authored over 40 peer reviewed journal articles, received 4 patents and his work has been highlighted on 8 journal covers. He has also been the recipient of prestigious scholarships and fellowships such as the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and the Australian Nano Technology Network Travel Fellowship. His research group focuses on creating devices that intimately integrate with biological systems by combining innovations in soft materials, photonics and electronics to create systems with broad impact on health diagnostics, therapeutics and exploratory neuroscience.Show Less
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Grants
- I-Corps: Biosymbiotic wearable biosensing devices
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$50.0K
Active - Charitable Contribution for University of Arizona, Department of Biomedical Engineering (#11436)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$25.0K
Active - Optical Tools to Probe Neural Circuits in the Echolocating Bat
Key Personnel (KP)
2020
$297.7K
Active - Optimizing the Restoration and Rehabilitation of Function Using Cortically-Controlled FES Following SCI
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$425.0K
Active - Osseosurface Electronics to Monitor Rehabilitation and Accelerate Return to Duty Following Surgical Treatment of Long Bone Fractures
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$724.8K
- A Soft, Battery-free, Wireless, Wearable Digital Health Platform for Continuous Frailty Assessment
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$100.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Tapping into technology to improve health care research
2022
- Tiny Wireless Device Illuminates Neuron Activity in the Brain
2021
- Engineers Use Confetti-Sized Device to Change Songbird Pitch, Improve Understanding of Human Speech
2021
- Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone'
2021
- Engineers 3D-Print Personalized, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge
2021
- Tiny Wireless Device Casts Light on Brain's Inner Workings
2020
- $1.5M Gift to UA to Help Shape Biomedical Engineers of Tomorrow
2018
Publications (69)
Recent
- Wireless, fully implantable cardiac stimulation and recording with on-device computation for closed-loop pacing and defibrillation
2022
- Nicotine Sensors for Wearable Battery-Free Monitoring of Vaping
2022
- Wireless, Battery-Free Implants for Electrochemical Catecholamine Sensing and Optogenetic Stimulation
2022
- Wearable devices for continuous monitoring of biosignals: Challenges and opportunities
2022
- Activation of the dorsal, but not the ventral, hippocampus relieves neuropathic pain in rodents
2021
- Wireless and battery-free platforms for collection of biosignals
2021
- Wireless, Accumulation Mode Dosimeters for Monitoring Pulsed and Non-Pulsed Germicidal Lamps
2021
- Wireless, battery-free, subdermally implantable platforms for transcranial and long-range optogenetics in freely moving animals
2021
- Biosymbiotic, personalized, and digitally manufactured wireless devices for indefinite collection of high-fidelity biosignals
2021
- Wireless battery free fully implantable multimodal recording and neuromodulation tools for songbirds.
2021
- Osseosurface electronics—thin, wireless, battery-free and multimodal musculoskeletal biointerfaces
2021
- Wireless and battery-free technologies for neuroengineering
2021
- Soft, Wireless and subdermally implantable recording and neuromodulation tools.
2021
- Wireless, battery-free, and fully implantable electrical neurostimulation in freely moving rodents
2021
- Smartphone for monitoring basic vital signs: miniaturized, near-field communication based devices for chronic recording of health
2020
- Excitatory VTA to DH projections provide a valence signal to memory circuits
2020
- Sweat-activated biocompatible batteries for epidermal electronic and microfluidic systems
2020
- Wireless battery free fully implantable multimodal recording and neuromodulation tools for songbirds
2020
- Moving from Pedagogy to Andragogy in Biomedical Engineering Design: Strategies for Lab-at-Home and Distance Learning
2020
- Wireless, battery-free subdermally implantable photometry systems for chronic recording of neural dynamics
2020
- Skin-interfaced soft microfluidic systems with modular and reusable electronics for: In situ capacitive sensing of sweat loss, rate and conductivity
2020
- Wireless, battery-free, fully implantable multimodal and multisite pacemakers for applications in small animal models
2019
- Battery-free, skin-interfaced microfluidic/electronic systems for simultaneous electrochemical, colorimetric, and volumetric analysis of sweat
2019
- Soft, Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic Systems with Passive Galvanic Stopwatches for Precise Chronometric Sampling of Sweat
2019
- Flexible inorganic light emitting diodes enabled by new materials and designs, with examples of their use in neuroscience research
2019
- Waterproof, electronics-enabled, epidermal microfluidic devices for sweat collection, biomarker analysis, and thermography in aquatic settings
2019
- Battery-free, lightweight, injectable microsystem for in vivo wireless pharmacology and optogenetics
2019
- Wireless, battery-free optoelectronic systems as subdermal implants for local tissue oximetry
2019
- Battery-free, fully implantable optofluidic cuff system for wireless optogenetic and pharmacological neuromodulation of peripheral nerves
2019
- Semiconductor-Free Field-Emission Nanoelectronics: Application in Air-Channel Transistors
2019
- Bio-Integrated Wearable Systems: A Comprehensive Review
2019
- Skin-integrated wireless haptic interfaces for virtual and augmented reality
2019
- Wireless optoelectronic photometers for monitoring neuronal dynamics in the deep brain
2018
- Perspective: Implantable optical systems for neuroscience research in behaving animal models:Current approaches and future directions
2018
- Fully implantable optoelectronic systems for battery-free, multimodal operation in neuroscience research
2018
- Wireless, battery-free, flexible, miniaturized dosimeters monitor exposure to solar radiation and to light for phototherapy
2018
- Epidermal electronics for noninvasive, wireless, quantitative assessment of ventricular shunt function in patients with hydrocephalus
2018
- Implantable, wireless device platforms for neuroscience research
2018
- Wearable sensors: Modalities, challenges, and prospects
2018
- Metal-Air Transistors: Semiconductor-Free Field-Emission Air-Channel Nanoelectronics
2018
- Materials and Device Designs for an Epidermal UV Colorimetric Dosimeter with Near Field Communication Capabilities
2017
- Miniaturized Battery-Free Wireless Systems for Wearable Pulse Oximetry
2017
- Fully Biodegradable Microsupercapacitor for Power Storage in Transient Electronics
2017
- Nanoscale TiO2 dielectric resonator absorbers
2016
- Mechanical assembly of complex, 3D mesostructures from releasable multilayers of advanced materials
2016
- Fabrication of micro-scale single-crystal silicon structures for efficient terahertz magnetic mirror
2016
- Strain Engineering of Wave-like Nanofibers for Dynamically Switchable Adhesive/Repulsive Surfaces
2016
- Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray as High-Efficiency Nonuniform Terahertz Metasurface
2016
- Mechanically Tunable Dielectric Resonator Metasurfaces at Visible Frequencies
2016
- Efficient terahertz reflectarray based on dielectric resonator antennas
2016
- Nanoscale TiO<inf>2</inf> dielectric resonator absorbers
2016
- Stretchable Gas and UV Sensors towards Wearable Electronics
2016
- Terahertz and optical Dielectric Resonator Antennas: Potential and challenges for efficient designs
2016
- Flexible bi-layer terahertz chiral metamaterials
2015
- Visible-Blind UV Imaging with Oxygen-Deficient Zinc Oxide Flexible Devices
2015
- Terahertz Magnetic Mirror Realized with Dielectric Resonator Antennas
2015
- Stretchable and Tunable Microtectonic ZnO-Based Sensors and Photonics
2015
- Flexible metasurfaces and metamaterials: A review of materials and fabrication processes at micro- and nano-scales
2015
- Donor-induced performance tuning of amorphous SrTiO<inf>3</inf> memristive nanodevices: Multistate resistive switching and mechanical tunability
2015
- Mechanically tunable thin film high refractive index contrast TiO<inf>2</inf>-gratings in elastomeric matrix
2015
- Passive electric monopole array for terahertz surface wave launcher
2015
- Mechanically Tunable High Refractive-Index Contrast TiO<inf>2</inf>-PDMS Gratings
2015
- Epidermal electronics with advanced capabilities in near-field communication
2015
- Donor-Induced Performance Tuning of Amorphous SrTiO3 Memristive Nanodevices: Multistate Resistive Switching and Mechanical Tunability
2015
- Mechanically Tunable High Refractive-Index Contrast TiO2-PDMS Gratings
2015
- Miniaturized Flexible Electronic Systems with Wireless Power and Near-Field Communication Capabilities
2015
- Terahertz reflectarray as a polarizing beam splitter
2014
- Strain response of stretchable micro-electrodes: Controlling sensitivity with serpentine designs and encapsulation
2014
- Transparent functional oxide stretchable electronics: Micro-tectonics enabled high strain electrodes
2013