Dimiter Prodanov

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimiter Prodanov is Director of the Laboratory of Neurotechnology at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2023 he has led VIBraTE, a €2 million Horizon Europe ERA Chair project on how implanted electrodes interact with brain tissue. He previously spent many years at imec in Belgium. There he developed multichannel brain electrodes, coordinated the H2020 project NanoStreeM on nanomaterial safety in semiconductor manufacturing, and headed the imec Biobank. He holds an MD from the Medical University of Sofia and a PhD from the University of Twente. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and contributes to the open-source image-analysis software ImageJ.