Thomas Linner

Thomas Linner is a Senior Scientist and highly experienced senior R&D manager with a focus on the development and deployment of advanced technology in the construction, smart buildings, manufacturing/work place and health care/assistive technology sectors. He strives to look at the complete innovation pipeline from research to market implementation, and he successfully embeds standards as a tool to facilitate technology transfer from research to industrial application.

Dr. Linner has been an invited speaker at universities such as the University of Tokyo, The University of Hong Kong, Ecole Centrale Lille and Cambridge University. He has received several prizes and grants. Dr. Linner is the scientific director and project manager of a large university-industry collaborative project (REACH: 17 partners including the major players in the European health care industry) funded with 6 million Euros by the European Commission in the Personalised Health Care (PHC) track. He is a regular evaluator for projects handed in for national funding schemes, serves as a reviewer for several international conferences and Journals, and is active as editor/guest editor of proceedings and Journal Special Issues.

Dr. Linner has received support and funding from renowned institutions such as Humboldt Foundation, the EC’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program, and Japan’s Centre of Excellence program. This year he will hold a temporary guest professorship at Keio University in Tokyo.

Currently Dr. Linner serves as the convenor of both WG2/ ISO TC 314 Ageing Societies and the German national standardisation committee DIN NA 023 BR-01 SO. In November 2019, Dr. Linner received the CEN-CENELEC Standards + Innovation Award 2019.

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