Kühn, Sven
Head of Product Safety & Regulation
Sven Kühn received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) in Information and Communication Technologies from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, in 2009, for which he received the ETH Zurich.
From 2004 to 2009, he was a Ph.D. Student at the IT'IS Foundation, Zurich, working on numerical and experimental methods for the assessment of human exposure to electromagnetic fields, and has since continued as a Project Leader for Electromagnetic Analysis. Since 2006, he has been with ZMT Zurich MedTech AG. Since 2009, he has also been with Schmid & Partner Engineering AG (SPEAG), where he currently serves as Director of Hardware R&D and Board Member.
At ZMT, his work centers on regulatory compliance and product safety for implant safety test systems, with a particular focus on MRI safety testing and the applicable international standards such as IEC/ISO TS10974. He is a Swiss national delegate to IEC TC 106 and TC 103 and has served as a scientific advisor to regulatory bodies on electromagnetic safety standards. His technical background spans RF/EM sensor design, near-field metrology, and computational and experimental dosimetry in bioelectromagnetics.
