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Max Jair Ortiz Catalan

PhD, Signals and Systems

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Dr. Max Ortiz Catalán is an Assistant Professor at the Biomedical Signals and Systems research group, and founder of the Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory. He works in close collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Reconstruction of Extremities (C.A.R.E.) at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Integrum AB, both in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Dr. Max Ortiz Catalan's research focus on the natural control of artificial limbs via osseointegrated implants. This involves bio-electric signals acquisition and processing, neural interfaces, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, neurostimulation, and control algorithms. He is also interested in the use of virtual and augmented reality for neuromuscular rehabilitation and treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) using myoelectric pattern recognition to decode motor volition.

Dr. Ortiz Catalan is leading the development and clinical implementation of the Osseointegrated Human-Machine Gateway. This technology made possible, for the first time, that patients are fitted with prostheses directly connected to bone, nerves and muscles. He has also developed a novel treatment for phantom limb pain, which is currently under clinical investigation. These projects have in common the use of bioelectric pattern recognition (BioPatRec) for the prediction of motor intention. Dr. Ortiz Catalan has made the algorithms necessary for such task available in an open source platform for research and development (BioPatRec).

Talk at TEDx Göteborg about osseointegrated prosthesis with neural control. November 2014.

Publications: ResearchGate

Reviewer record: Publons

Twitter: @MaxOrtizCatalan
Facebook: @ChalmersBNL

Invited speaker - Conferences
05/2017 Osseo 2017 (KEYNOTE), Nijmegen, Netherlands.
03/2017 Handdagar (Swedish Society for Hand Rehabilitation), Malmö, Sweden.

11/2016   Orto Medical Care  (KEYNOTE), Madrid, Spain.
06/2016    User Body Experience and HMI Assistive Robotics (KEYNOTE), Darmstadt, Germany.
05/2016    OT World (KEYNOTE), Leipzig, Germany.
05/2016    Restoration of Sensory and Motor Function Symposium, Göttingen, Germany.
02/2016    TEDx Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico.
01/2016    Kshitij, IIT Kharagpur, India.
12/2015    Go:LIFE, Gothenburg, Sweden.
10/2015    Epicenter Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
10/2015    The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
06/2015    Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (KEYNOTE), Guadeloupe, France.
03/2015    Int. Conf. Advances in Orthopaedic Osseointegration (6th), Las Vegas, USA
11/2014    TEDx Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
10/2014    Trans. Eng. in Neurorehabilitation (DEMOVE Symposium), Göttingen, Germany.
09/2015     Life Science – National Day, Sep 30, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.
08/2014     Annual IEEE EMBC 2014, Chicago, USA.
06/2014     Neural Interface Conference, Dallas, USA.
05/2014     MedTech West Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.
04/2014     Myo-Seminar by Ottobock, Gothenburg, Sweden.
02/2014     DARPA Sensorimotor Prosthetic Workshop, Phoenix, USA.
06/2013     International TMR Symposium, Vienna, Austria.
09/2010     Young Scientists Forum 2010 “From Laboratory to Clinics”, Gothenburg, Sweden.
09/2010     Int. Conf. Advances in Orthopaedic Osseointegration (3rd), Gothenburg, Sweden.

Invited Lectures

11/2016 Guest lecture, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

09/2016 MedTech West Seminar, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

07/2016 Guest lecture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

05/2016    Guest lecture, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
12/2015    Guest lecture, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
12/2015    Guest lecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
11/2015    Guest lecture, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
11/2015    Guest lecture, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.
06/2015    Guest lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
04/2015    Guest lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA.
03/2015    Guest lecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
11/2014    Guest lecture, University Rehabilitation Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
04/2014    Colloquium, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
03/2014    Café-å-lär, Applied Physics Dept., Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Sweden.
07/2013    Workshop on Advances in Hybrid Organs (2nd), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
05/2013    Medical Physics (MSc course), Applied Physics Department, CTH, Sweden.
04/2013    MedTech West Seminar, CTH, Gothenburg University (GU), U. Borås, and VGR, Sweden.
04/2013    Lunch Bunch (PhD seminar), Applied Physics Dept., CTH, Sweden.
03/2013    Guest lecture, LIRMM, U. Montpellier and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
03/2013    Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine (PhD course), Biomaterials Dept., GU, Sweden.
10/2012    Graduate School (PhD seminar), Applied Mechanics Dept., CTH, Sweden.
12/2015    Medicine for Engineers (MSc course), Signals and Systems Dept., CTH, Sweden.
’12 –’16 Biomedical Instrumentation (MSc course), Signals and Systems Dept., CTH, Sweden.
’11 –‘13    Biomedicine for Business Creation and Entrepreneurs (MSc course), Gothenburg
                   International Bioscience Business School, GU, Sweden.
02/2011    Biomedical Electromagnetics (PhD seminar), Signals and Systems Dept., CTH, Sweden.