Michael is a German citizen with expertise in diagnostic imaging + image guided therapies, as founder/innovator/CEO/investor, and research scientist. After a BSc. in electrical engineering he spend 5 years in San Francisco as R&D Engineer at a MRI and Ultrasound device manufacturer.He also graduated with a MSc. in Technology Management from Golden Gate University, San Francisco and obtained his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Witten, Germany.
Dr. Friebe currently is a research fellow of TUM in Munich, an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, professor of HealthTec Innovation at the AGH University of Krakow Poland and member of the medical faculty of the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, Germany.
Since 2022 he is the founding director of the Center for Innovation, Business Development, and Entrepreneurship at the FOM in Essen, Germany.
He is a listed inventor of more than 100 patents, author of >400 scientific contributions, and has been part of over 35 medical technology start-ups. He also is the general partner of a a dedicated investment-fund (5P Future of Health).
Michael is an IEEE Senior Member and was from 2016-2018 Distinguished Lecturer of the EMBS teaching innovation generation and future oriented MedTech translation/entrepreneurship from bench to bedside especially in combination with exponential technologies.
