Capstick, Myles
Chief Technology Officer
Myles Capstick received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wales in Bangor in 1987 and 1991, respectively.
He was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering Science at the University of Wales, Bangor, in 1990 and moved to the University of York, Department of Electronics, in 1996, where he was first lecturer and later senior lecturer. In May 2006, he joined the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT’IS) in Switzerland where he currently serves as project leader, head of hardware and associate director. His expertise encompasses the design of analog, radio frequency (RF), microwave, and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems, subsystems, circuits, and antennas, which he applies in the fields of device and system development for health risk assessment studies (in vitro, in vivo animal and human), measurement technology, and bio-medicine
He spearheaded the development of equipment for the assessment of the RF and gradient field safety of medical implants in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, these test systems have been commercialized by ZurichMedTech. In the field of health risk assessment, he has designed body-worn antennas, dosimetry handsets, wireless, measurement instrumentation for improved assessment of safety in EM fields and for measurement of miniature body worn devices. Recently, he has been involved in the design of exposure systems for new 5G mm-wave bio-experiments (in-vitro and in vivo) with well controlled exposure conditions.
His expertise in analog circuit design was a key enabler for TI Solutions to develop the TIBS-R investigational device for Temporal Interference (TI) neuro stimulation and modulation. He acted as the chief architect and designer for the device circuitry and authored two technology-based patents. He continues to refine and advance the field through new circuit topologies with improved performance or advantageous characteristics. A key advancement of the field was in our understanding and innovative approach that allows artefact free concurrent TI stimulation and EEG recording, New paradigms for stimulation that allow arbitrary envelope shape and facilitates simple triggered TI using phase modulated carriers is a key development that has advanced the field and enabled new treatment paradigms. Recently, he has expanded our EM field measurement capabilities to lower frequencies to allow the measurement of temporally interfering (TI) fields, used for non-invasive targeted neuromodulation of deeper brain structures, for use within liquid based phantoms, spanning frequencies up to several hundred kHz.
