Professor Ivan Minev

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Visiting Professor

Ivan Minev
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i.minev@sheffield.ac.uk
Amy Johnson Building

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Professor Ivan Minev
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Ivan Minev is Professor of ‘Electronic Tissue Technologies’ at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health at the Medical Faculty of TU Dresden since 2023. He holds a joint appointment at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden, where he is head of a research department. Between 2019 and 2023 he was professor of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies at the Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD with a thesis ‘Soft Neural Interfaces’ from the University of Cambridge in 2012. His work focuses on the development of materials, devices and systems for bioelectronic medicine.

Professor Minev is working on the development of bioelectronic interfaces. These are devices that establish a communication channel between living and electronic systems. In his recent work he has used 3D printing technology and soft conductive materials to fabricate electrode arrays for implantable, wearable and cell culture applications. This has enabled the recording of biopotentials from the surface of the brain, cell cultures and from muscles. The recorded signals contain a wealth of information about the state of the interfaced biological system. They can potentially be used as diagnostic biomarkers or as control signals in neuroprostheses. The aim of collaboration with SoEEE is to explore the datasets available from this experimental work and to establish if advanced signal processing methods and machine learning can be applied to extract useful information. 

Research interests

Bioelectronic implants improve the lives of countless individuals through diagnostic or prosthetic functions. Beyond the success of cardiac pacemakers, cochlear implants or deep brain stimulation, many more therapeutic applications in the nervous and cardiovascular systems remain unexplored. Making the most out of these opportunities will depend on implantable systems that can record and stimulate neural activity and integrate seamlessly with soft tissues in the body.

My group is working on:

  • Building sensor-actuator networks to enable listening and speaking to the nervous system in several “languages”. We treat the nervous system not only as an electrical, but also as a chemical, thermal and optical machine.
  • Development of 3D printing technologies for the physical realization of implantable bioelectronic devices and soft robots.
  • Novel biomaterials (e.g. hydrogels) for engineering the interaction between implant and host tissue.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Minev IR (2023) . Journal of Polymer Science.
  • Clayton Da Silva A, Akbar TF, Paterson TE, Werner C, Tondera C & Minev IR (2022) . Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
  • Paterson TE, Hagis N, Boufidis D, Wang Q, Moore SR, Da Silva AC, Mitchell RL, Alix JJP & Minev I (2022) . Flexible and Printed Electronics, 7(3).
  • Da Silva AC, Wang J & Minev IR (2022) . Nature Communications, 13(1).
  • Habelt B, Wirth C, Afanasenkau D, Mihaylova L, Winter C, Arvaneh M & Bernhardt N (2021) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9.
  • Athanasiadis M, Afanasenkau D, Derks W, Tondera C, Murganti F, Busskamp V, Bergmann O & Minev IR (2020) . npj Flexible Electronics, 4(1).
  • Habelt B, Arvaneh M, Bernhardt N & Minev I (2020) . Bioelectronic Medicine, 6(1).
  • Tondera C, Akbar TF, Thomas AK, Lin W, Werner C, Busskamp V, Zhang Y & Minev IR (2019) . Small, 15(27).
  • Athanasiadis M, Pak A, Afanasenkau D & Minev IR (2019) . Advanced Materials Technologies, 4(7).
  • Xu Y, Patsis PA, Hauser S, Voigt D, Rothe R, Günther M, Cui M, Yang X, Wieduwild R, Eckert K , Neinhuis C et al (2019) . Advanced Science, 6(15).
  • Wenger N, Moraud EM, Gandar J, Musienko P, Capogrosso M, Baud L, Le Goff CG, Barraud Q, Pavlova N, Dominici N , Minev IR et al (2016) . Nature Medicine, 22(2), 138-145.
  • Sakuma M, Minev IR, Gribi S, Singh B, Woolf CJ & Lacour SP (2015) . Bioelectronic Medicine, 2(1), 43-48.
  • Minev IR, Musienko P, Hirsch A, Barraud Q, Wenger N, Moraud EM, Gandar J, Capogrosso M, Milekovic T, Asboth L , Torres RF et al (2015) . Science, 347(6218), 159-163.
  • Minev IR, Wenger N, Courtine G & Lacour SP (2015) . APL Materials, 3(1), 014701-014701.
  • Borton D, Bonizzato M, Beauparlant J, DiGiovanna J, Moraud EM, Wenger N, Musienko P, Minev IR, Lacour SP, Millán JDR , Micera S et al (2014) . Neuroscience Research, 78, 21-29.
  • Chew DJ, Zhu L, Delivopoulos E, Minev IR, Musick KM, Mosse CA, Craggs M, Donaldson N, Lacour SP, McMahon SB & Fawcett JW (2013) . Science Translational Medicine, 5(210), 210ra155-210ra155.
  • Vandeparre H, Liu Q, Minev IR, Suo Z & Lacour SP (2013) . Advanced Materials, 25(22), 3117-3121.
  • Minev IR, Moshayedi P, Fawcett JW & Lacour SP (2013) . Acta Biomaterialia, 9(6), 6936-6942.
  • Delivopoulos E, Chew DJ, Minev IR, Fawcett JW & Lacour SP (2012) . Lab on a Chip, 12(14), 2540-2540.
  • Minev IR, Chew DJ, Delivopoulos E, Fawcett JW & Lacour SP (2012) . Journal of Neural Engineering, 9(2), 026005-026005.
  • Dansachmuller M, Minev I, Schwodiauer R, Bauer-Gogonea S & Bauer S (2011) . IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 18(1), 64-68.
  • Minev IR & Lacour SP (2010) . Applied Physics Letters, 97(4), 043707-043707.
  • Habelt B, Wirth C, Afanasenkau D, Mihaylova L, Winter C, Arvaneh M, Minev IR & Bernhardt N () .
  • Afanasenkau D, Kalinina D, Lyakhovetskii V, Tondera C, Gorsky O, Moosavi S, Pavlova N, Merkulyeva N, Kalueff AV, Minev IR & Musienko P () . Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Book chapters

  • Akbar TF, Tondera C & Minev I (2020) , Neural Interface Engineering (pp. 237-265). Springer International Publishing
  • Minev IR & Lacour SP (2016) , Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems (pp. 257-273). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings

  • Cyganowski A, Minev IR, Vachicouras N, Musick K & Lacour SP (2012) . 2012 IEEE Sensors, 28 October 2012 - 31 October 2012.
  • Delivopoulos E, Minev IR & Lacour SP (2011) . 2011 5th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 27 April 2011 - 1 May 2011.
  • Minev IR, Chew DJ, Delivopoulos E, Fawcett JW & Lacour SP (2011) . 2011 5th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 27 April 2011 - 1 May 2011.
Grants

European Research Council, Starting Grant,  (IntegraBrain), 2019 – 2024, 1,496,000 €.

Volkswagen Foundation, Freigeist fellowship, , 2017 – 2021, 920,000 €