Björn Eskofier

Björn Eskofier is a Professor at the School of Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU Erlangen). His research focuses on Machine Learning, Biomedical Engineering, Digital Health, and Sensor Technology with applications in stress detection, gait analysis, and radar-based biomedical monitoring.

His 2025 publications demonstrate expertise in machine learning for physiological signal analysis, wearable sensor systems, and radar-based health monitoring across fields like stress response, sleep staging, and palliative care. Current work emphasizes multimodal data fusion and open-source biomedical frameworks.

Key collaborations include University Hospital Erlangen, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and European Health Psychology Society. His team develops EmpkinS emotion-based biofeedback systems and gaitmap open-source gait analysis ecosystem.