Patrique Fiedler studied electrical engineering and information technology at the Technische Universität Ilmenau and received his PhD in biomedical engineering in 2017. He then moved to industry from 2017 to 2021 and held development, project and product management positions at an internationally active medical technology manufacturer. Prof. Fiedler has been a visiting scientist at the University of Porto (Portugal), Complutense University Madrid (Spain), and University of Pescara-Chieti (Italy) on several occasions. Since 2025, Patrique Fiedler is full professor and head of the group "Data Analysis in Life Sciences" at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Universität Ilmenau. During his academic career he received several awards including the best PhD thesis award 2018 of TU Ilmenau and the BIOMAG young investigator award.

His research interests include data fusion, analysis of multimodal datasets and body sensor networks, as well as the exploration of novel sensor concepts for biomedical engineering. Moreover, a focus is the development of online-capable analysis methods for close-to-sensor data processing. 

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Waldo Nogueira received his degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2003, completing his diploma thesis at Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) as an Erasmus student. He earned his PhD at LUH’s Laboratory of Information Technology, focusing on signal processing for cochlear implants. His research explores how electrical and acoustic stimulation interact in the auditory system, using methods from electrophysiology, psychoacoustics, computational modeling, and signal processing.

He has worked across clinical, academic, and industrial settings. As a tenured W2 professor, he created the Auditory Prosthetic Group within the Hearing4all cluster and Hannover Medical School (MHH), where he investigates new hearing technologies. His teaching includes clinical audiology, psychoacoustics, and neural signal processing. In 2022, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the READIHEAR project, and in 2024, an ATRAE grant from Spain’s Agencia Estatal de Investigación for the NEUROHEAR project at the Unviersitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.