Kristen Kozielski is an assistant professor of neuroengineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She previously ran the Neuroelectronic Materials Group within the Institute of Functional Interfaces at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Dr. Kozielski completed her PhD in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. At TUM, her group works with new materials for wireless communication in the brain and nervous system. The goal of this work is to contribute to neurotechnologies that are minimally invasive and can potentially be implanted without surgical intervention. Dr. Kozielski’s work has received funding from several national and international awards, including the National Institutes of Health. She has authored 27 peer-reviewed publications, and her work has been cited over 1300 times.