Tobias Ruff was born in Germany. He joined the IT'IS Foundation in October 2024.
Tobias studied chemistry and biochemistry, he did a PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich working on the influence of certain transmembrane receptors on brain development. He then continued with a Postdoc at ETH Zurich in the lab of Janos Voeroes where he has been developing the idea of a biohybrid neural interface for targeted high resolution brain stimulation.
Tobias will be working mainly on TI stimulation project and serve as the “biologist interface” for external collaborations.