Prof. David Holder / 2013

The  fifth H. P. Schwan Award was given to Professor David Holder for his pioneering work in imaging brain activity with electrical impedance tomography.
 

From the engineering point of view, this is extremely difficult, as not only the sources are very weak but the corresponding signals are also damped and corrupted by various mechanisms on their way to the surface. Many difficult problems were solved and finally he was successful in demonstrating the feasibility of imaging brain activation patterns in the cortex of an anesthetized rat by EIT.
 

Throughout many years he has promoted EIT, an important sector of bioimpedance research, not only by his important scientific contributions but also by organizing and co-organizing a series of meetings and workshops.
 

Within the impedance community he is one of the leading persons who try to push forward clinical applications of EIT.