OUR TEAM

TEAM SPIRIT

We're a dynamic team of enthusiastic young researchers determined to make a significant difference in the lives of blind people. Our team spirit helps us work better together and creates a positive atmosphere. We're excited to work on such an impactful innovation and give it our best to make it a reality!


TEAM

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Frederik Ceyssens, PhD

Co-Founder and CEO


Frederik co-founded ReVision Implant together with Peter, with great ambition and motivation. Together with the rest of the team he works hands-on on developing the intra-cortical visual prosthesis. 

Laura Apolinario

R&D Engineer


Laura joined our research team to work on the development of the Occular implant, focussing on lifetime testing and insertion techniques.

Laurens Goyvaerts

R&D Engineer, PhD candidate


Laurens is working with us on the fabrication and characterization of the Occular implant and especially focuses on implant lifetime.

Nils Van Rompaey

R&D Engineer


Nils recently joined us, and is working of software and firmware development for the Occular prosthesis.

Philippine de Suray

R&D Engineer


Philippine holds a mechanical engineering degree from Group T, Leuven. She works on robotic insertion of our brain implants.

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Maarten Schelles

R&D Engineer, PhD Candidate


Maarten works as part of his PhD with us on the encapsulation, the stimulator and the electronics of the entire device. He has an eye for detail and shows great dedication. 

Jasmine Peeters

CFO


Jasmine worked as a financial analyst at DHL Express and as European Controller at C&A, as well as a Senior Costing Analyst at DHL International. She then became Financial Planning Manager at DHL International. She's also a member of ReVision's board.

Anke Verhaege

MD


Anke obtained her MD degree at KU Leuven, Belgium and gained experience in neurology during her period as resident in Aachen, Germany. She then moved on to obtain a MSc degree in biomedical engineering.

Maya Guilliams

Student Employee


Maya is currently in her final year of MSc. in Bioengineering, specializing in tissue engineering. She also works part-time at ReVision Implant.

External Board Members

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Johan Van den Bossche


Johan is serial entrepreneur and has substantial experience in medtech. He was co-founder of Krypton Engineering, and stayed with the company until it was acquired by Metris, then Nikon. Since then he's involved in several ventures including Lab Motion Systems, Elmedix, Xenomatix, Sculpman, Faromatics and Mauhn.


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Ruben Verhoeven


Ruben is Senior partner Emeritus from McKinsey &Compa ny and therefore has extensive experience in strategic management across a wide variety of industrial sectors. He's also founder of Ventures&RV.

Research partners at KU Leuven

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Prof. Peter Janssen, MD

Co-Founder


Peter is a neuroscientist with a life-long experience in reseach on the visual system. His great experience in neural implants and work on large primates make him the perfect science partner for ReVision. He's also board member of ReVision.

Prof. Michael Kraft



Michael Kraft leads the ESAT research division Micro- and Nano-systems. He joined ESAT as a full professor in October 2017 and has more than 20 years experience in the design, fabrication and characterization of a wide range of micro- and nanosystems.

Maxime Feyerick



Maxime is pursuing a PhD in the design of medical integrated circuits, supervised by Wim Dehaene. He's focused on IC design for the visual prosthesis in the framework of our joint VLAIO project 'StimChip'.

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Lara Merken

R&D Scientist, PhD candidate


With immense dedication, Lara studies the use of our implants during in vivo experiments on primates in her capacity as Peter's research assistant.

Prof. Wim Dehaene


Wim Dehaene is a professor at KU Leuven since 2002. Before that time he was working for Alcatel Microelectronics as a senior project director. His main research interests are ultra low power DSP, medical electronics and memories. Besides that he also heads high speed digital circuit research mainly in the domain of digital RF transmitters and digital AD convertors.


Prof. Dr. Thomas Decraemer


Thomas is a neurosurgeon at the Gasthuisberg University Hospital in Leuven. He's a specialist in brain-machine interfacing and also advises on surgery-related aspects of our developments.


International research partners

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Juan Fuentes



At UPF Barcelona, Dr. Juan Fuentes is tirelessly working on in silico modelling of neurostimulation in the framework of our joint EIC project 'HyperStim' .

Dr. Lucia Wittner



Lucia Wittner received her MSc degree in biology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 1999. She obtained her PhD in neuroscience in 2004 at Semmelweis University Doctoral School, Budapest, Hungary. Currently, she is working in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology in the Research Center for Natural Sciences, Budapest. Her research interests include synchrony generation in the neocortex and the hippocampus, human epilepsy research and the validation of neural probes.

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Richárd Fiáth


Dr. Richárd Fiáth leads the team that uses ReVision's stimulator and microelectrodes to study advanced stimulation patterns in the visual cortex of transgenic mice.  His home institution is TTK in Budapest, Hungary.