Eric J. Seibel

HPL Director, Research Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Adjunct Professor Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Oral Health Sciences

Dr. Seibel received undergraduate and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and University of California, Berkeley. After 4 years in the medical device industry, Eric designed and developed laser scanning microscopes for live tissue imaging for his doctorate from the UW Department of Bioengineering.

As a Research Scientist at the UW Human Interface Technology (HIT) laboratory, Eric invented the scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) which has received funding from WTC, NIH, NSF and PENTAX (HOYA Corporation). As research faculty at UW, Eric led development of the True 3D Display with funding from NSF and Intel Corporation. In addition, the optical projection tomography microscope was invented and developed in the HIT Lab with funding from the Washington Technology Center (WTC). Further developed was under the Human Photonics Lab with VisionGate Inc., with funding from NIH and NSF.

In the Human Photonics Lab, the full-color minimally-invasive SFE has developed with first-in-human testing in the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, biliary ducts, and fallopian tubes. New multimodal SFE features of integrated fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy have provided new applications in image-guided surgery, optical biopsy, and therapy monitoring. The multimodal SFE is being developed commercially for medical and industrial imaging applications by VerAvanti Inc., Redmond, WA.