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Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Editorial Board of the MICCAI - Elsevier Book Series
Prof Frangi is Chair of the Editorial Board of the MICCAI-Elsevier Book Series (2017-2020) and serves/ed as Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Trans Computational Imaging, SIAM Journal Imaging Sciences, Computer Vision and Image Understanding journals. Prof Frangi was a foreign member of the Review College of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, 2006-10) in UK, received the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Early Career Award in 2006, the ICT Knowledge Transfer Prize (2008) and two Teaching Excellence Prizes (2008, 2010) by the Social Council of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He also was awarded the UPF Medal (2011) for his service as Dean of the Escuela Politècnica Superior. He was awarded the ICREA-Academia Prize by the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) in 2008. Prof Frangi is an IEEE Fellow (2014), EAMBES Fellow (2015), SPIE Fellow (2020), SIAM Member, MICCAI Member, and an elected member to the Board of Directors of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society (2014-2018). Prof Frangi served in the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) and as Chair of the Fellows Committee of the IEEE EMBS
Job Titles:
- Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor Anders Eklund graduated as an MSc in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993. He has worked both at the Physics Department, Umeå University and at the research and development department of Biomedical Engineering at Umeå University Hospital. Eklund initiated his doctorate studies in 1997 and obtained a PhD-degree in Biomedical engineering from Umeå University in 2002. Eklund was appointed Associate Professorship in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, in 2005. Since 2012 he is Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Umeå University. His research field is models and measurement techniques concerning physiological fluid dynamics. Especially research related to the hydrodynamic characteristics of the cerebrospinal fluid system and the intraocular system as well as cerebrovascular hemodynamics. Together with Neurology Professor Jan Malm, he leads The Umeå Hydrocephalus Research Group, a multidisciplinary team that has funding from the Swedish Research Council, Swedish National Space Board, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, JPND and many other sources. Eklund has published more than 130 peer reviewed journal papers and supervised 28 (18 completed and 10 ongoing) PhD students as main- or co-supervisor. For his work in the field of brain and eye fluid dynamics he has received Erna Ebeling award (2017), the Pudenz award (2020) and held the Marmarou lecture (2018).
Professor Andreas Demosthenous (FIEEE, FIET, CEng) received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic engineering from the University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K., in 1992; the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Technology from Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 1994; and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL), London, U.K., in 1998. He is the Research Director in the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (he led the REF2021 and REF2014 submissions of his department) and leads the Bioelectronics Group. His research interests include analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical, sensor, and signal processing applications. He has made outstanding contributions to improving safety and performance in integrated circuit design for active medical devices such as spinal cord and brain stimulators. He has numerous collaborations for cross-disciplinary research, both within the UK and internationally. He has published over 400 articles in journals and international conference proceedings, several book chapters, and holds several patents. He has been co-recipient of a number of best paper awards and has graduated over 30 PhD students.
Professor Demosthenous was an Associate Editor from 2008 to 2009 and the Editor-in-Chief from 2016 to 2019 of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, and an Associate Editor from 2006 to 2007 and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief from 2014 to 2015 of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and serves on the Editorial Board of Physiological Measurement. He has served of the Technical Programme Committee of many IEEE conferences including ISCAS, BIOCAS, ICECS, ESSCIRC, and NER. He was the Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Fellows Evaluation Committee, 2022-2023. He is the Chair of the UK and Ireland IEEE CASS Chapter and the General co-Chair of the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2025).
Professor Demosthenous is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE) for contributions to integrated circuits for active medical devices, a Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering Sciences (EAMBES), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng).
Cyril Lafon was born in Saint Yrieix la Perche, France, in 1974. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Physics from University Blaise Pascal of Clermont Ferrand, France and University of Montreal, Quebec, in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France, in 1999. After developing interstitial HIFU probes during his Ph.D. study in INSERM Unit 281, Dr. Lafon joined for two years the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington, Seattle, as a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. Lafon worked there on ultrasound induced hemostasis and the development of tissue mimicking phantoms for HIFU applications. Dr. Lafon was recruited by INSERM, Unit 556, in 2002 as a research scientist. He became the director of LabTAU, INSERM Unit 1032 in 2016. His recent research interests focus on modeling ultrasound wave propagation, development of ultrasonic therapeutic devices for thermal ablation or drug delivery and communication by ultrasound for medical applications. Dr Lafon received the Frederic Lizzi Early Carreer Award from International Society on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in 2010 and the Robert Merkin fellowship of the FUS Foundation in 2016. He was nominated fellow of the EAMBES in 2020 and elected President of the ISTU in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University
David Elad is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University since 1985. He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering on 1973, M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering on 1978 and 1982, all from the Technion, Haifa, Israel. He was then awarded the Rothschild and Bantrell post-doctoral fellowships at Imperial College London and M.I.T.
David pioneered computational studies of biofluid transport phenomena in the nasal cavity in the late 80's. In the early 90's he established a comprehensive research program in bioengineering of human reproduction. He developed his expertise from complete organs all the way to the cellular levels. The respiratory studies included integrative assessment of respiratory muscles, transport phenomena in the human nose, objective noninvasive evaluation of nasal function and mechano-transduction of nasal epithelial cells cultured under air-liquid interface conditions, including effects of air-pollution. The reproductive studies included the role of uterine peristalsis in early human life, pre-implantation embryo transport after IVF, feto-maternal blood circulations in the placenta, transport of nutrition, pharmaceuticals and carcinogenic materials across a tissue engineered placental barrier, mechano-transduction of cultured ovarian cancer cells and biomechanics of infant breastfeeding. He published 131 articles in peer-review journals and edited 5 special journal issues.
David has been a visiting scholar in many universities and currently he is teaching in Columbia University. He has been a member of the World Council for Biomechanics (2002-14) and fellow of the AIMBE (2004), the BMES USA (2005) and the IAMBE (2013). He is currently the secretary of IAMBE.
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Computational Medicine
Prof Alejandro (Alex) Frangi obtained his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona) in 1996. He pursued his PhD in Medicine at the Image Sciences Institute of the University Medical Centre Utrecht University on model-based cardiovascular image analysis. Prof Frangi is Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, with joint appointments at the School of Computing and the School of Medicine. He holds an honorary joint position at the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Cardiovascular Science at KU Leuven, Belgium. He leads the Centre for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine. He is also a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and was awarded a Presidential International Fellowship Award by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018).
Prof Frangi has main research interests lay at the crossroad of medical image analysis and modelling with emphasis on machine learning (phenomenological models) and computational physiology (mechanistic models). He has a particular interest in statistical methods applied to population imaging phenomics and in silico clinical trials. His highly interdisciplinary work has been translated to the areas of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and neurosciences.
He has been principal investigator or scientific coordinator of over 25 national and European projects, both funded by public and private bodies. Prof Frangi has edited several books, published several editorial articles and ca. 250 journal papers in key international journals of his research field and more than ca. 250 book chapters and international conference papers with an h-index 63 and over 25,000 citations according to Google-Scholar.
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Prof. Dimitris Koutsouris (M), received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1978 (Greece), DEA in Biomechanics in 1979 (France), Doctorat in Genie Biologie Medicale (France), Doctorat d'Etat in Biomedical Engineering 1984 (France). Since 1986 he was research associated on the USC (Los Angeles), Renè Dèscartes (Paris) and Asoc. Professor at the school of Electrical & Computers Engineering of National Technical University of Athens.
He has been Professor and Head of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory from 1991-2022. At the time present he is Emeritus Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has extensive experience of more than 30 years in teaching the courses of Measurements and Control in Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical and Clinical Engineering and e-Ηealth & m-Ηealth Τechnologies. Prof. Koutsouris has supervised 50 Ph.D., 56 M.Sc. students and over than 340 undergraduate students. He has published over 300 research articles and book chapters and more than 400 conference communications (most IEEE). He was been elected as president of the Greek Society of Biomedical Technology (1998-2010), chairman of HL7 Hellas (2000 - 2008), and chairman of the school of Electrical & Computers Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (1998-2002). He was also Chairman of Greek Biomedical Technology Association (1992-2004). He was also president of E-Health Forum 2014, which was organized under the auspices of the Greek EU Presidency in cooperation with the European Commission. He is also Vice Director of Institute of Computer and Communications (ICCS) (2022- present). Finally Prof. D. Koutsouris has been principal investigator over 100 European and National Research programs, especially in the field of Telematics and Informatics in Healthcare.
Fergal O'Brien is a graduate in mechanical engineering with a PhD in bone mechanobiology (Trinity College Dublin) and carried out postdoctoral research (Fulbright Scholarship) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Deputy Director of the 58million SFI-funded AMBER Centre, funded investigator in the 50million CÚRAM Centre and Chair of the Executive Committee/PI in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. He has been a reviewer for >100 scientific journals and grant agencies, is currently a member of the World Council of Biomechanics and will co-chair the World Congress of Biomechanics in 2018. He has served as President of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, as Biomaterials Topic Chair for the Orthopaedic Research Society, and as an EU Council Member of TERMIS. He co-founded SurgaColl Technologies, which has translated 2 regenerative technologies from his lab to the clinic. He is an editorial board member of 5 journals and Subject Editor for the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. He has published almost 200 articles and numerous chapters & editorials in peer-reviewed international journals and books (h-index =57, Jan 2018), filed 13 patents/disclosures, supervised 31 doctoral students to completion and presented >100 invited talks at conferences worldwide. He is a recipient of two prestigious European Research Council Awards. Accolades include: ORS New Investigator Recognition Award (2002), SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award ( 1.1million, 2004), Engineers Ireland Chartered Engineer of the Year (2005), Anatomical Society New Fellow of the Year (2014) and Fellowship of Engineers Ireland (2013).
Job Titles:
- Director of Research at INSERM
- Fellow 's Committee
Françoise Peyrin is Director of Research at INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) in Lyon, France. She received her PhD in Computer Sciences (1982) and her "Docteur ès Sciences" (1990) from INSA-Lyon and Université Lyon I. She has first been Assistant Professor at INSA-Lyon (1981-87) and since then a Researcher at INSERM. Since 1995, she has been a scientific collaborator at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), Grenoble, France. She is leading the team «Tomographic imaging and Radiotherapy » in the CREATIS Laboratory (Univ Lyon, INSERM U1206, CNRS 5220, INSA-Lyon, Université Lyon I) specialized in medical imaging. Her research interest is in 3D biomedical imaging particularly in X-ray tomography, tomographic image reconstruction, inverse problems in biomedical imaging and wavelet based methods. She has particularly been developing imaging methods for the characterization of bone tissue at the micro/nano scale. She is the author of 190 peer-reviewed papers, 21 books chapters and more than 370 conference papers (> 165 in IEEE style proceedings). She is currently leading the LabEx PRIMES (Physique Radiobiology Medical Imaging and Simulation) from the UdL (Université de Lyon) and was the past leader the French GdR Stic Santé (2011-14). From 2002 to 2014, she has been a member of the IEEE BISP committee (Bio Imaging and Signal processing) of the IEEE SP (Signal Processing) Society, and since 2015, a member of the IEEE BIIP committee (Bio Imaging and Image processing), and the EURASIP Special Activity Team BISA (Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics).
Gabriele Dubini received his master degree (MSc) in Mechanical Engineering cum laude in 1988 and his PhD degree in Bioengineering in 1993 from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
In 1993 and 1994 he worked as a Research Assistant in the Cardiothoracic Unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children - NHS Trust, London, UK. An Assistant Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer since 1996, he was then appointed Associate Professor (2001) and Full Professor (2007) of Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano.
At Politecnico di Milano he was the Director of the Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics - LaBS (2003-07) and a member of the Scientific Panel of the Coordination Centre on NanoBiotechnologies and Nanomedicine (2007-12). From 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the Council of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) and the Secretary-General for the 2010-12 biennium. In 2017 he was appointed the Deputy Director of the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘Giulio Natta'.
Most of Gabriele Dubini's research activity has dealt with experimental and computational Biomechanics. His research has covered a number of topics, such as microcirculation, the hemodynamic optimization of blood circulation after pediatric cardiac surgery procedures, heat and mass transfer in tissues and medical devices, preoperative planning of minimally invasive vascular procedures. His most recent research interests are in the field of microfluidic devices for medical and biotechnological applications. WP Leader and PI in a number of European, international and national research projects, he has co-authored more than 150 papers (WoS h index of 37, as of June 2019).
Giuseppe Baselli, Milano, 1958, got his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering track, in 1983 at the Politecnico di Milano, cum laude. Since 2001 he is full professor in Bioengineering at the same university. He was director of the Biomedical Engineering program (2004-2009) and of the Department of Bioengineering (2010-12), member of the Academic Senate (2011-12), coordinator of the Bioengineering Section of the new Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB, 2013-15). Fellow EAMBES (since 2019). He teaches a course on Bioengineering for Physiological Control Systems and one on Methods for Biomedical Images. He is coauthor of more than 140 journal papers. His research interests are in the field of biomedical signal processing and in its relationships with the linear and non-linear modeling of cardiovascular regulation, image reconstruction in oncology and molecular imaging, neuro-imaging including functional and anatomical connectivity and cerebrovascular regulation. His contributes in these areas share the approach of model based signal/image processing for functional information extraction.
Heinz Redl has a background in biochemistry with almost 40 years' experience in trauma and regenerative medicine research. He is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Experimental and Clinical Traumatology within the main trauma research center of AUVA representing 7 trauma and 4 rehabilitation centers and holds the position of Associated Professor at the Technical University Vienna, Institute for Chemical Engineering. In 2006, he founded the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration, which includes work groups from academia and industry with multiple research targets. To further enhance industry cooperation he founded also the company Trauma Care Consult, which is specialized on preclinical research and covers products registration at FDA and EMA. In 2014 he co-founded the spin-off company Liporegena and in 2017 MorphoMed. Prof. Redl organized many conferences in the field of regenerative medicine such as the World Congress for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERMIS) 2012, the Bernard Wiggers Congress in 2017 and annual workshops (Winterschool in Radstadt). He holds positions in several societies, such as Chair of TERMIS-EU and is member of multiple editorial boards (e.g. Tissue Eng, J TERM, eCM).
His expertise includes experience in different fields of tissue regeneration, co-developer of the fibrin sealant system (>30 years), developer of surgical devices in current clinical use and many collaboration projects with major industry partners. He has written >520 papers, holds >10 patents and has participated in several EC projects.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor in Faculty of Biomedicine
Professor Ilkka Korhonen is currently an Adjunct Professor in Faculty of Biomedicine and Health, Tampere University, Finland, and Clinical Algorithm Lead in Reality Labs, Meta Platforms, CA, USA. He has more than 30 years of expertise in HealthTech, wearables, algorithms and sensing technology, research and translating research into products, partner relations, and business development. Korhonen's current research focuses on efforts to make the consumer a central user of health information and to use health tech to transform our behaviors to promote health and wellness. During his career, he has studied personal health systems, eHealth/mHealth, biosignal interpretation, health monitoring, and wearable health sensors, and even decision making based on sensor data in critical care and anesthesia. He has made several patents and inventions, contributed to several commercial products, businesses, and concept designs. He has over 200 international scientific publications, and he is a founding member of IEEE EMBS TC on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems, member of IEEE EMBS TC for Biomedical and Health Informatics, and Senior Member in IEEE EMBS.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Orthopedic Biomechanics
Jess Snedeker is a Professor of Orthopedic Biomechanics, with joint faculty chairs at the ETH Zurich (Department of Health Sciences and Technology) and the University of Zurich (Medical Faculty) where he is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Orthopedics. Since 2015, he has served as Chief Scientific Officer of the Balgrist Campus, a federally funded center for musculoskeletal research. This national hub hosts more than 20 independent groups comprising more than 220 researchers working onsite. The Snedeker Laboratory is itself a leading research group focused on tendon mechanobiology and regenerative orthopedic surgery. The group has over 150 peer reviewed original publications in print and has received numerous scientific awards for its work. Beyond basic research, the Snedeker group actively develops and translates next-generation orthopedic devices for improved patient outcomes and better quality of life.
Job Titles:
- Vice - President of Public Affairs Working Group, and Ex - Officio Member of the Executive Board
Prof Dimitrios I. Fotiadis received the Diploma degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering and materials science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he is also the Director of the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems and is also an Affiliated Member of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dept. of Biomedical Research. He was a Visiting Researcher at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He has coordinated and participated in more than 200 R&D funded projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 papers in scientific journals, 450 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and more than 50 chapters in books. He is also the editor or co-editor of 28 books. His work has received more than 12000 citations (h-index=58). He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of EAMBES, Fellow of IAMBE, member of IEEE Technical Committee of information Technology in Healthcare and the Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Associate Editor for Computers in Biology and Medicine. His research interests include multiscale modeling of human tissues and organs, intelligent wearable/implantable devices for automated diagnosis, processing of big medical data, sensor informatics, image informatics, and bioinformatics. He is the recipient of many scientific awards including the one by the Academy of Athens.
Prof. Amit Gefen received the B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1994, 1997, and 2001, respectively. During 2002-2003 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Full Professor with the Faculty of Engineering of Tel Aviv University. The research interests of Prof. Gefen are in studying normal and pathological effects of biomechanical factors on the structure and function of cells, tissues and organs, with emphasis on applications in chronic wound research. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he developed tissue-engineered model systems to study pressure ulcers. To date, Prof. Gefen published more than 200 journal articles. He was awarded the best paper awards by multiple journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Biomechanics (Elsevier), and has also edited several books and Special Issues in journals. He is also editing a book series on Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials (Springer), and has served as an Associate Editor or at Editorial Boards of journals which are ranked at the top of his field. Prof. Gefen has been the President of the European Pressure Ulcer Society (EPUAP) in 2013-2015. He is a member of the World Council of Biomechanics and a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. Prof. Gefen was awarded the Pressure Care career award by the World Union of Wound Healing Societies in 2016 and the Experienced Investigator Award of EPUAP in 2017.
Prof. Dr. Keita Ito received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Starting with a fellowship at the Inselspital (Bern, Switzerland), he eventuall became Vice Director at the AO Research Institute (Davos, Switzerland), where his research focused on biomechanics and mechanobiology of bone healing and intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration. In 2007, he became a full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), where he leads the Orthopaedic Biomechanics group. This group combines numerical and experimental methods in engineering and biological research to elucidate degenerative processes in bone, tendon, cartilage and disc, as well as regenerative strategies thereof. He also is a professor in the Dept. of Orthopaedics at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands) where he works on the mechanobiology of musculoskeletal regenerative medicine. He has co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and is on the editorial board of Biomech Model Mechanobiol, J Orthop Res, Tissue Eng and is a deputy-editor of the Global Spine Journal. He and his group have been awarded the Spine Young Investigator Award 2004, the ESB Perren Award 2010, GSJ Best Paper Award 2014, as well as other conference awards. He has served in various capacities and on the boards of the European Society of Biomechanics, Spine Society of Europe, AOSpine International, AO Foundation World Council of Biomechanics, ISSLS and the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Board
- Vice - President of Membership
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Board
- Vice - President