Tobias "Tobi" Delbrück (often written Delbruck) (born 1960,

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at ETH Zürich is an American neuromorphic engineer at the University of Zurich and

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, Switzerland. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to neuromorphic visual sensors and processing".

Family and education

Tobi is the son of Mary Adeline Bruce and Max Delbrück, the 1969 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.Faculty website
at the University of Zurich
at nobelprize.org Delbrück has a Bachelor's degree in physics and applied mathematics from the

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and obtained a PhD in computation and neural systems at

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in 1993 under the guidance of Carver Mead.

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1960 births Living people American bioengineers American computer scientists American neuroscientists American expatriates in Switzerland Fellow Members of the IEEE Academic staff of ETH Zurich Academic staff of the University of Zurich California Institute of Technology alumni University of California, San Diego alumni People from Pasadena, California {{US-scientist-stub