The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal

Luca Di Angelo is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics. He received the Graduated with honours in Mechanical Engineering (10/29/99) at the University of L'Aquila and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 at the University of ‘Tor Vergata’ in Rome. His main research activities regards analysis, development and implementation of methods for features recognition (in field such as biomedical, technological, archaeological and anthropology) starting from discrete 3d geometric models. Prof. Di Angelo is author of more than 70 papers and he serves as reviewer for 11 international peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Enrique Berjano received a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1994, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1999. He has authored more than 80 scientific papers and 3 patents in the field of biomedical engineering. His research interests include biomedical instrumentation, radiofrequency heating of biological tissues, and engineering teaching. He is a member of the advisory board of The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal from 2007. Dr. Berjano has been a scientific consultant for medical technology companies in Spain and USA. In 2010, he founded Apeiron Medical, a start-up focused on surgical devices based on energy for ablative therapies.

Prof. Comani received the Italian Degree of Doctor in Physics in 1979 at the University of Bologna, and the PhD degree in Physics in 1985 at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Her main research interests regard Biomedical signal processing and methods for the evaluation of functional and effective connectivity in the adult and infant brain with application in cardiology, neuroscience, behavioral dynamics, and neuro-motor rehabilitation. Prof. Comani is author of more than 90 scientific papers, serves as reviewer for 27 International peer-reviewed scientific journals. Prof. Comani has supervised more than 10 PhD and post-doc researchers.

Dr. A. De Brevern was trained as a Cell Biologist and is a Structural Bioinformatician for around 20 years. His two main axes of researches are: (i) developing innovate methodologies useful for the scientific community and (ii) specific application to proteins implicated in diseases and pathologies. Concerning the first axis, he has provided near 20 tools, webservers and databases mainly dealing with the analyses and prediction of protein behaviours, e.g. superimposition of protein structures and prediction of protein flexibility. Concerning the second axis, he used mainly comparative modelling and molecular dynamics to analyse protein for Red Blood Cells and platelets.

Carmelo De Maria is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, and affiliated with the Research Center “E. Piaggio”. He is guest professor in bioengineering at Addis Ababa University, and member of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium secretariat. His research interests are in the field of additive manufacturing/rapid prototyping technologies, with a particular focus in Biofabrication. He has several papers published in international scientific journals (over 30) and in 2016 he received the 1st award as Young Investigator from the International Society for Biofabrication.

Agnès Drochon is born in 1965, in Châteauneuf-sur-Charente, France. She obtained her diploma of Engineer in mechanics and fluid mechanics at ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France) (1987), and a PhD in biomedical engineering at University of Technology of Compiègne (France), in 1991. She is CNRS research fellow since this time, in the Laboratory BMBI (Bio-mechanics and Bio-engineering) of UTC. Her topics of research are cardio-vascular biomechanics, cells biomechanics, blood rheology, magnetohydrodynamic flow of blood, and related applications. She teaches mathematics and fluid mechanics.

Dr. Gallet is the Director of the ERRMECe Laboratory at Paris-Seine University and is member of the MEC-uP group. Specialist in biomaterials, extracellular matrix biochemistry, he starts his research in PhD and postdoctoral position in plant biochemistry in the University of Poitiers and University of Orsay (Paris XI). For more than 20 years he focuses onto extracellular matrix organization and his specialist in ECM proteins organization as fibronectin and vitronectin. Dr. Gallet has authored more than 45 manuscripts. He is member of the administration council of the French society of Plant Biology, French biology ECM society, French Molecular biology and biochemistry society.

Elina A. Genina is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Optics and Biophotonics of Saratov State University and a Senior Researcher of Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Biophotonics of Tomsk State University. She received the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia, in 2002. She is the author or coauthor of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, 8 book chapters on Biomedical Optics, and 9 patents. Her research interests include biomedical optics, nanobiophotonics, OCT, optical and laser measurements, photodynamic/photothermal therapy, and development of methods for control of tissue absorption and scattering properties for medical optical diagnostics and therapy.

Dr. Paul Gratzer is the Chief Scientific Officer, Co-founder, and inventor of the patented decellularization technology of DeCell Technologies Inc. Dr. Gratzer holds degrees in Chemical Engineering (B.A.Sc.), Biomaterials Science (M.A.Sc.), and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D). He has been actively involved in research in soft tissue regeneration for over 22 years and has been honored with several awards for his research and commercialization activities. In addition to publications in prominent scientific journals, book chapters, and invited talks, Dr. Gratzer is an has been a member of committees for research funding agencies such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Canadian National Research Chairs.

Vasif Hasirci, is a Fellow of the Science Academy (Turkey), a member of the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (UK). He is a chemist and an expert in biomedical, biotechnological and nanotechnological applications of natural and synthetic polymers. He is the Director of the Center of Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU) and the President of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society (Turkey). He has 5 patents and patent applications, 200+ SCI journal papers, supervised 40 M.Sc. and 20 Ph.D. students.

Qingmao Hu is a professor with Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology since 2007. He received his PhD degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990. Then he worked as a lecturer, and associate professor for the South Medical University of China, a guest scientist with University of Bern in Switzerland, and a senior scientist for A*STAR in Singapore. He pioneered the study on supervised image thresholding and the mechanism to adaptively change window size for appropriate local thresholding. He has published 60 SCI journal papers including Lancet, and won RSNA awards 3 times.

Dr. Ruhul Amin Khan obtained Ph.D. degree on Degradable Fiber Reinforced Composites for Artificial Bone Applications from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nottingham, England in 2006. He completed two years Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Quebec, Canada. Dr. Khan served as the Visiting Scientist (Professor Status) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from November 2013 to November 2015. At present, Dr. Khan holds the position of Director at the Institute of Radiation and Polymer Technology, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. Khan has 176 international publications including several book chapters.

Rui Alberto Lima is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho (UM), a research fellow at MEtRiCS/UM and CEFT-FEUP, University of Porto and an external collaborator at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB). He received a PhD in Engineering (2007) from Tohoku University, Japan and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (equivalence, 2008) from Minho University. Areas of research include biomedical microdevices, biomicrofluidics, nanofluidics, blood flow and biofabrication.

Emanuela Marcelli is Associate Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at School of Medicine (DIMES Department) of University of Bologna. She is Director of the Laboratory of Bioengineering and Deputy Director of DIMES. She has more than 15-years experience in implantable cardiac devices, sensors for cardiac function monitoring, artificial organs. In her career, she contributed to research and development of an innovative cardiac contractility sensor currently inserted in cardiac pacing devices produced by Sorin Group. She has authored more than 100 papers and abstracts on international journals. She is inventor of 8 US, 6 European and 18 Italian patents.

Marta Parazzini received the M.D. in Biomedical engineering and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her primary research activity deals with the medical applications of electromagnetic field (EMF), the computational modeling of the interactions between EMF and biological system, the deterministic and stochastic methods applied to EMF dosimetry.

Dr. Prado-Velasco obtained a doctorate (PhD) in Industrial Engineering focused to the Biomedical field from the University of Seville, Spain. He has more than 25 years of experience in the research, discovery and development in biomedical engineering, mathematical modeling in engineering, and electronics engineering. He holds currently the direction of PhysPK: a physiological and PKPD modeling and simulation new innovative software tool from Empresarios Agrupados Internacional, and holds a position of professor in the Graphic Engineering department of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Seville, Spain. He has authored more than 84 papers and 4 patents.

Julietta V. Rau (Dr, PhD) is researcher, head of the laboratory and research group at Institute of the Structure of Matter of Italian National Research Council (ISM-CNR, Rome). She is the author of more than 115 publications in International Journals and about 145 presentations and Invited talks at International Conferences (present H-index is 24). She received several international awards for research achievements.

She is the CHAIR of the biennial BioMaH “Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare” International Conference (https://biomah.ism.cnr.it) and Member of International Scientific Committees of various Conferences in the field of Materials Science, Nanoscience, Biomaterials and Medical devices.

Stefania Romeo received the Master degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Naples (2008), and the PhD in Electronic Engineering from the Second University of Naples (2012). Since 2012, she has been with CNR - IREA. She was visiting student at the University of Southern California, Department of Electrical Engineering, between 2010 and 2011. In 2014, she was visiting scientist at the University of Copenhagen, funded by the COST Action “European Network for the Development of Electroporation-based technologies and Treatments”. In 2015, Stefania Romeo was awarded the Young Investigators Competition during the 1st World Congress on Electroporation.

I studied biochemistry and did my PhD in bioprocess technology. Currently, I am working at the University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen (THM) at the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology (IBPT). I lead the section cell culture technology, which mainly develops viral and cellular bioprocesses. Thereby, the work focuses on the implementation of online methods for cultivation control, the development of reactor concepts and process strategies for the respective application. Further I am group leader at the LOEWE-Centre for Insect Biotechnology and Bioresources which deals with recombinant protein production processes.

Professor Daryoush Shahbazi-Gahrouei obtained his PhD in Medical Physics at the University of Western Sydney and St. George Cancer Care Centre, Sydney, Australia, in 2000. He holds the position of Professor of Medical Physics at the Department of Medical Physics in the School of Medicine of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, since 2010. He has authored many papers in the area of Medical Physics, including Medical imaging techniques (MRI, CT and nuclear medicine), Nanoparticle for diagnosis and treatment of cancers, Nanomedicine, Radiation biology, Radiation dosimetry, Advanced radiation therapy, Nuclear medicine, Bio-effects of electromagnetic fields and radiation protection.

Dr. Madjid Soltani completed his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, and later continued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Johns Hopkins, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Computational Medicine Institute (CMI). He is currently an assistant professor at K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Iran and also adjunct professor of departments of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Electrical / Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His main area of interest is tumor vascularization, drug delivery, and CFD. Dr. Madjid Soltani is reviewer of numerous journals, published more than 70 papers in the reputed journals, conferences and written 2 book chapters. He has also delivered several presentations in international meetings.

Kenji Suzuki, Ph.D., worked at Aichi Prefectural University, as a faculty member, and in Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, as Assistant Professor. In 2014, he joined Department of Electric and Computer Engineering and Medical Imaging Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, as Associate Professor. He published more than 300 papers. He is inventor on 30 patents (including 12 granted patents). He published 10 books and 22 book chapters, and edited 12 journal special issues. He was awarded/co-awarded more than 25 grants as PI including NIH R01 and ACS. He served as an organizer of 25 international conferences, and a program committee member of 143 international conferences.

John is a Reader in Polymer Science at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth. John currently works on: Mucoadhesive materials for therapeutic use in the eye, mouth, stomach, vagina and colon; Non-toxic materials that inhibit bacterial binding; Target-specific boronated agents for cancer therapy; and, Drug delivery to the brain. John has published more than 120 research papers and book chapters and is named inventor in several patents that have been assigned to industrial partners in the pharmaceuticals and household-products industries.

Ali Yadollahpour received his PhD in Medical Physics from Tarbiat Modares University, Terhan, Iran in 2013. Currently, he is the head of the Bioelectromagnetic Clinic in Imam Khomeini Hospital Ahvaz, Iran, affiliated to Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (AJUMS), Ahvaz, Iran. He is also the faculty member of Medical Physics department, School of Medicine in AJUMS. His research interests are experimental and quantitative neuroscience, brain stimulation, and neuromodulation, using physical modalities and nanoscale agents in medical theranostics

Zeev Zalevsky received his B.Sc. and direct Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Zeev is currently a full Professor and the Dean of the faculty of engineering in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His major fields of research are optical super resolution, biomedical optics, nano-photonics and fiber-based processing and sensing architectures. Zeev has published more than 800 papers, 9 books and about 100 patents. He is a fellow of many large scientific societies such as SPIE, OSA, IEEE, EOS, IOP, IET, IS&T and more. He is also a fellow of the American National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Yudong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Southeast University at 2010. He worded as postdoc from 2010 to 2012, and a research scientist from 2012 to 2013 at Columbia University. His research interest is biomedical image processing. He is now a full professor in Nanjing Normal University, China. He is a guest professor in Henan Polytechnic University. He published over 100 papers, and 21 were included as “ESI Highly Cited Papers”

Dr. Dan Zhu is a Full Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the vice-director, Wuhan National Optoelectronics Laboratory. Her research interest is biomedical optical imaging. During the past ten years, she has been focusing on optical clearing of tissue for improving optical imaging. Especially, she developed in vivo skin and skull optical clearing methods. She has authored more than 100 peer-review papers in Light: Science and Applications, Laser & Phototonics Reviews, et al. She also serves as the Vice-President and Secretary General of Biomedical Photonics Committee of Chinese Optical Society.

Dr. Paolo Barbini is currently affiliated with University of Siena, Italy, in the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics, etc. Dr. Barbini, as an author/co-author, has published more than 110 articles in various journals, having over 1,645 total citations.

Dr. XingGuo Cheng obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2005 in Material Science and Engineering (Biomaterials) from University of Florida, USA. Dr. Cheng is in the faculty of various universities and has also been performing the role of Principal Scientist / Principal Investigator (PI) / Co-PI. His research interests/expertise involve: (1) Biomaterials development, including scaffolds, drug-eluting coatings, nano/micro particles and fibers for biomedical devices, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications; (2) Biomaterial for connective tissue engineering (e.g., tendon/ligament, skin, bone) and regeneration using biomaterials, cells, and biopharmaceuticals; and (3) Biomaterial for drug, gene, and vaccine delivery.

Professor R.M. Hall has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Leeds and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Lancaster. He rejoined the University of Leeds as a jointly appointed Lecturer in the Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Medicine. His research interest includes biomechanics, medical engineering, medical devices, bio tribology, spine, and hip. Professor Hall has received funding from National Institutes of Health in the USA, Wellcome (UK), the European Commission and EPSRC. He is currently the Co-coordinator of the European Project, Lifelong Joints, which comprises 15 EU partners. Additionally, he has a growing interest in neural mechanics.

Dr. António Salgado is a biologist and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering- Tissue Engineering and Hybrid Materials, from the University of Minho, followed by a post-doc at the University of Toronto and Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) at University of Minho. Currently, he is a Principle investigator at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Minho. His research interests focus on the development of innovative therapies for CNS repair. He is currently an author of more than 80 papers.

Alexey N. Bashkatov is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Optics and Biophotonics of Saratov State University and a Leading Researcher of Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Biophotonics of Tomsk State University. He received the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia, in 2002. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, 8 book chapters on Biomedical Optics, and 9 patents. His research interests include tissue optics, biomedical optics, nanobiophotonics, optical and laser measurements, computer simulation, and development of methods for control of tissue absorption and scattering properties for medical optical diagnostics and therapy.

Dr. Laura Burattini is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, where she teaches courses of “Bioengineering” and “biomedical signal and data processing”. Dr. Burattini is also Vice-president of the academic spinoff B.M.E.D. – Bio Medical Engineering Development srl. Dr. Burattini took her Pd.D. at the University of Rochester, NY, and has nearly 15 years of experience in research in the biomedical field, mainly in the processing of biomedical signals the automatic identification of risk indexes. Dr, Burattini has authored more than 143 manuscripts (56 journal publications, 9 book chapters and 78 conference proceedings) and two patents.

Maxim E. Darvin studied at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), the Faculty of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Department of Quantum Electronics / Medical Physics, where he completed his master's degree in physics. After a postgraduate study, he was awarded the titles Dr. rer. med. in 2007 at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany and PhD in 2010 at the Saratov State University, Russia. His main research interests include biophotonics, medical physics, biophysics, laser techniques, spectroscopy and microscopy with the focus on research in the field of skin physiology. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and books.

Dr. Claudio De Lazzari is researcher at Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.) since 1987. He is Head of "Telecardiology & Clinical Applications of Numerical Modelling of Biological Systems" Research Unit of the National Institute for Cardiovascular Research. He is author of more than 150 international referred articles, many chapters in books and he is editor of 4 books. He acts as project evaluator and reviewer in the UE e-Health sector and for different Italian public administrations. In 2015 he received the title of “DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA” from the Board of the Teaching University Geomedi (Georgia).

Dr. Thanh Nho Do received the PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a senior research scientist at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU, Singapore. He currently is a research scientist at California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. His main research interests include the development of flexible endoscopic systems, soft capsule endoscopy, drug delivery system, soft robotics, nonlinear control, haptic/tactile displays. He has published more than 40 scientific works including top-tier journal, conferences, books, and international patents. He also served as program committees and editors of leading conferences and journals.

The mission of my research activities pertains to the investigation of the mechanical functionality of biological tissues and structures and the optimization of surgical procedures, biomedical devices and sport equipment. Activities are defined considering the actual clinical and surgical demand and the partnership with industries operating in the biomedical field and the sport- system. A unique research approach is followed, where in silica mathematical modelling, in vitro biomechanical experimentations on human and animal tissues and structures, and in vivo animal models are synergistically integrated to rationally design and validate novel procedures and devices.

Dr. Antonietta Morena Gatti was awarded as International Fellow of the Societies of Biomaterials and Engineering in 2012. As coordinator of the European Projects Nanopathology and DIPNA (nanotoxicity) she developed new diagnostics to evaluate the presence of engineered and incidental nanoparticles in pathological tissues contributing to the etiopatology of some diseases. Previously she served as coordinator of the Laboratory of Biomaterials at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. From 2004 she is active in Italian Governmental Commissions on the Depleted Uranium and soldiers’ diseases. Dr.Gatti has authored more than 250 articles, wrote 2 books and many chapters in the field of Nanopathologies.

Dr. Mohamed Gepreel is associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt. Dr. Gepreel got his Dr.Eng. degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya University (Japan) in 2008 in the field of alloy design for biomedical applications. He worked as visiting researcher at Nagoya University (Japan), and then at Biomaterials Science Department, Tohoku University (Japan) till 2010. Recently, he started focusing on the new functional alloys such as smart and shape memory alloys and the biological biocompatibility of newly designed alloys. Currently, Dr. Mohamed Gepreel has published more than 70 peer reviewed publications and received more than 15 awards, fellowships and research projects overall.

Ibrahim Gunes was born in 1980 Antalya / TURKEY. Ibrahim GUNES graduated with a Bachelor's degree of 3.50/4.00, a Master graduate of 4.00/4.00 and a doctorate degree with a grade of 3.93/4.00 completed. He has been working as a as a faculty member (Assoc. Prof.) at Afyon Kocatepe University, Technology Faculty, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.

Dr. Hossein Hosseinkhani received his B.Sc degree (National Gold Medalist) in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique University, M.Sc degree (First class, First rank) in Chemical Engineering from Tarbiat Modarres University, and Ph.D degree in Polymer Chemistry in the field of Biomedical Engineering from Kyoto University. Dr. Hosseinkhani has broad experience in life sciences and is expert in nanotechnology, biomaterials and stem cells technology for regenerative medicine and biomedical engineering applications.

Dr. Iftimia received his PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania and his work focuses on developing novel optical technologies for the biomedical field, such as ultrasound-guided minimally invasive optical coherence microscopy (OCM) for cancer diagnosis, as well as on multimodal optical imaging for skin cancer diagnosis and surgical margins analysis. He has been recently elected as a fellow of the Optical Society of America his work has resulted in over 70 peer-review publications as a leading author or coauthor, over 150 conference presentations, multiple invited talks, several book chapters, and a book.

Diego Liberati is the Research Director for Information, Control and Biomedical Engineering, and a member of the Board, within the Institute for Electronics, Information and Communications Engineering of the Italian National Research Council at the Electronics and Information Department of the Milano Institute of Technology. Having taught signal processing, mathematical modeling, microelectronics, lab instrumentation and control theory in european Universities, he has also mentored dozens of pupils toward and beyond their doctorate. His main scientific interests in Information and Communication Technologies for life are related to measurement analysis, model identification and synthesis of emulation in natural and artificial complex systems, whose scientific and ethical aspects involving the human beings he loves to discuss in his papers.

Master in Chemistry of Semiconductors (1992) from Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and PhD from Melbourne University (Australia)/UFMG (1996). Pos-doc at Clarkson University NY,USA. In 1998, he joined to the Materials and Metallurgical Dept. at Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) where he is currently Full Professor. He was the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from 2010 until 2016. He has over 150 peer-reviewed papers published in high quality indexed journals and over 400 presented in Conferences and Proceedings and 6 patents deposited. He is a member of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

Prof. Özcan holds a Ph.D. in Dental Biomaterials from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has authored more than 350 clinical and scientific peer-reviewed manuscripts. She is EPA-Recognized Specialist in Prosthodontics, Honorary Secretary of the European Prosthodontic Association (EPA), Past-President of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) / Dental Materials Group (DMG), Fellow of Academy of Dental Materials (FADM), Fellow of International College of Dentistry (FICD) and Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, FDS RCPS (Glasgow). Her clinical expertise is on reconstructive dentistry and her scientific work focuses on translational research.

Dr. Ramamurthi is an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic with a secondary appointment at Case Western Reserve University (BME). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering, from Oklahoma State University (1999) and subsequently received an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship to pursue research at the Cleveland Clinic in developing novel glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-based biomaterials for biomimetic tissue engineering of aortic heart valves (1999-2001). He is a member of several international professional societies in the cardiovascular sciences, biomaterials, and tissue engineering fields, and is a Professional Member of the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. He serves on several national committees, such as that of the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO), and on the editorial broad of several scientific journals in the fields of biomaterials, nanomedicine, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Reza Fazel-Rezai, Ph.D., P.Eng. received the BSc., M.Sc., and PhD. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering in 1990, 1993, and 1999, respectively. He held positions of senior research scientist and research team manager at from 1999 to 2002. He is currently the Director of Biomedical Engineering Program and Biomedical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory at the University of North Dakota. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and edited 6 books in the field of biomedical engineering. His research interests include signal and image processing, brain computer interface, seizure detection and prediction, neurofeedback, and human performance evaluation based on physiological signals.

Angelo Maria Sabatini received the MSc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1986, and the PhD. degree in Robotics from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa in 1991, where he has been Assistant Professor of Biomedical Robotics in the years 1992-2001. Since then, he has been Associate Professor of Biorobotics at SSSA, where he currently leads the Sensor Signals & Information Processing Area within the BioRobotics Institute.

José A. Sanz-Herrera is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Seville, Seville, Spain. He completed his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, and held several visiting research positions at École Polytechnique, France, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass, USA, Imperial College, UK, and University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA. His research includes different aspects of computational biomechanics, biomaterials modeling, and tissue engineering, with a focus in the recent years on the modeling and simulation of cell-biomaterial interaction and cellular mechanics. He has more than 50 publications in these topics including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.

Sergio Silvestri is Professor of Measurements at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome and Head of the Clinical Engineering Service of the University Hospital Campus Bio-Medico. Scientific activity is focused on measurements and measurement systems for clinical diagnostics, in particular on non-invasive biomedical instrumentation and imaging, and for laser applications. He realized instruments for respiratory simulation, non invasive cardiac output measurement, neonatal peritoneal dialysis and carries out researches on performance assessment, clinical experimentation and quality evaluation of medical instruments.

Dr. Su is Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Secretary General and President-elect of World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (2015-17), Councilor of World Council of Biomechanics (2014-2026), and Founding Councilor of Asian-Pacific Association for Biomechanics. With regard to professional activities, he is Past-President of Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering (2011-2014), Past-President of Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics (2002-2003), and Executive Councilor of the Taiwan Industrial Technology Association. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA. Dr. Su’s has published 260 peer-reviewed journal papers.

Dr. Takagi has nearly 30 years of experience in clinical cardiology and clinical research aimed to treat arrhythmic disorders. He holds a Ph.D. in cardiology from Osaka City University. He has authored more than 70 manuscripts of especially Brugada syndrome. He is also a faculty member at Asian-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, a Fellow of Heart Rhythm Society, an Board Certified Member of the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society and the Japanese Society of Electrocardiology, a member of Japan Test Translation Committee in International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners, and editorial board in Journal of Arrhythmia.

Prof. Vainer is Principal Research Scientist of the Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS. His primary research areas are focal plane array-based infrared thermography and thermal imaging, including various applications of these methods to physics, chemistry, engineering, etc. Prof. Vainer has authored 8 scientific books, more than 160 manuscripts, 3 physics textbooks and some more educational materials. He is a Winner in the All-Russian Competition of Teachers (in 2009 and 2015). Under the UK Royal Academy of Engineering "Distinguished Visiting Fellowship" scheme, Prof. Vainer gave a series of lectures in Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Anglia Raskin University, University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, BP Lubricants.

She received her B.S Degree in information science from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, in 2008; the M. S. Degree and the Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York, USA in 2012 and Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in 2017 respectively. She joined Nanjing Normal University as an Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2018. Currently, she works as a research fellow in Loughborough University. Her research interests focus on Machine learning, Deep learning, Image processing. She has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences in related research areas.

Kirill I. Zaytsev is currently a Head of Laboratory at Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GPI RAS), Moscow, Russia. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 in Engineering Sciences from BMSTU, Moscow, Russia. His research interests are Nonlinear Optics, Photonics, Optoelectronics, Optics and Photonics, Nano photonics, Optical Physics, Solid State Physics Optics and Lasers.

Dr. Shaobing Zhou received his Ph.D. degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, and was promoted in 2005 to Full Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His research interests include drug controlled release system and tissue engineering scaffold. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 refereed articles, 1 book chapter and 15 Chinese patents/patent applications. He has been cited over 2500 times and has an h-index of 32. Currently, Dr. Zhou is associate editor of the journal American Journal of Materials Science and Technology, and is on the Editorial Board of various journals, such as Advanced Materials Letter, Advances in Chemical Physics, etc.

Dr. Cristina Bignardi obtained her Ph.D. in the year 1990 in Mechanical Systems and Structures at the Politecnico di Torino. Since 2001, Dr. Bignardi is an Associate Professor in Industrial Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Torino. Her main areas of research are: (1) Numerical and experimental structural analysis methods, (2) Human joints and arthroprostheses, (3) Biomechanics of the spinal column, (4) Dental biomechanics, (5) Biomechanics of the pelvic floor, (6) Characterization of biological tissue at different scales of investigation, and (7) Bioreactors for regenerative medicine. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 articles in various national/international journals with total citations more than 350, and has co-authored more than 10 book chapters.

Professor Antonio Gloria received his Ph.D. in "Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering" from the University of Naples "Federico II". Prof. Gloria currently holds the following key positions: (1) Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, Naples, Italy; (2) Professor at the University of Naples "Federico II" and at the Second University of Naples; and (3) Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria - Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Portugal. His main research interests include: Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Biomechanics, Additive Manufacturing, Reverse Engineering, Design and Manufacturing, Materials Science and Technology, Materials Properties, Modeling and Simulation.

Dr. Constantin A. Landes is the Head of the Department of Oral, and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery at Sana Hospital Offenbach and Professor for Oral, Maxillofacial and Plastic Facial Surgery at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. His main research topics are development and use of innovative technologies ranging from new surgical techniques, 3D-simulation, and material sciences to molecular medicine like stem cells. The outcome of about 250 scientific publications proves a high research standard. Dr. Landes is a Member of numerous national and international associations and has won several scientific awards. He is a member of several boards of scientific associations, foundations and journals.

Dr. H.K. Song is a biomedical engineer with a strong background in MRI physics and expertise in various areas of MRI engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Radiologic Science in Radiology and the Deputy Director LSNI at the University of Pennsylvania. For over a decade, his research has focused on the development of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE-) MRI strategies based on novel radial data acquisition and reconstruction methods that allow ultra-rapid dynamic imaging at both high spatial and high temporal resolutions.

Dr. Bassam Al-Naami is currently an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering Department at Hashemite University Jordan. He holds degrees in Biomedical Engineering (Five years Diploma), and PhD in Biomedical Engineering/Ergonomics (the Efficacy of Interaction with Operational Training 3D Virtual Reality Systems) from Saint-Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Russian Federation. His research interests included Biomedical Signals and Image processing (computer aided detection in Cardiology, Neurology, and Ophthalmology) and AI. In addition, he is also involved in Biomedical Instrumentation, and Ergonomics of virtual reality systems and haptic devices. Dr. Al-Naami has more than 25 published works in SCI journals and conferences.

Laura Cercenelli is a Research Assistant in Industrial Bioengineering at Dept. of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Bologna. In 2006 she received PhD in Electromagnetism and Bioengineering from Marche Polytechnic University. She collects expertise in the field of implantable sensors for cardiac function monitoring, robotic systems for interventional cardiac procedures, eye tracking, technologies for patient-specific simulation and 3D modelling/printing for pre-operative planning. She has authored more than 50 papers and abstracts published on peer-reviewed international journals. She is co-inventor of 2 EU and 9 Italian patents, of 5 US and 3 EU patent applications.

Prof. Luay Fraiwan (IEEE senior member) works at Abu Dhabi University (ADU) as a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is also affiliated with Jordan University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Luay obtained his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering in 2002 and 2005 respectively, from The University of Akron, Ohio, USA. Also, he holds a master’s degree in medical imaging from Compiegne Technological University, France. He got his Bachelor’s degree in electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1993.

Carlo Massaroni received the M.S. in biomedical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Currently, he is Post-Doctoral Researcher in the field of the mechanical and thermal measurements at the same University. His research interests focus on design, development and test of sensors and measurement techniques for mechanical measurements, on the design of wearable systems for vital signs monitoring and on the development of optoelectronic technologies for biomechanical analysis. He is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, and 1 book chapter. He is recipient of several Grant and Award in the field of Bioengineering and Biomechanics from National Society (GNB) and International Society (ISB, ESB, IEEE).

Dr. Elisabetta Rosellini is a Research Fellow in Industrial Bioengineering at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Biomedical Engineering, summa cum laude, in 2005. In 2009, she received her PhD degree in Biomaterials. Her main research interests are in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering, with particular focus on cardiovascular tissues. She has been the Scientific Coordinator for international research projects. She is an author of 35 scientific publications and 54 peer-reviewed conference proceedings/abstracts at leading national and international conferences, in the fields of biomaterials, tissue engineering and biomedical engineering.

Dr. Tomohiko Utsuki is presently serving as a Junior Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokai University. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences from The National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation. He further obtained Master degree and Doctorate degree of Health Sciences from Graduate School of Health Care Sciences at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. His area of research in Biosystems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and System Control Engineering.

Abdelwahed BARKAOUI is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at International University of Rabat. He obtained his University habilitation from university of Tunis El Manar-Tunisia in 2017 and his PhD from university of Orleans-France 2012. he has a master's degree in mechanics obtained from the INSA of Lyon- France and a diploma of engineer in electromechanical from ENI-Sfax Tunisia. he held the position of director of department of sciences and techniques of engineers and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies of El Manar. Currently, assistant director of LERMA laboratory, head of mechanical discipline at ECINE and coordinator of the ECINE study program accreditation committee. His research mainly concerns problems in biomechanics, mechanobiology and biomedical engineering. He was selected in 2017 by the research and development department of Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education for Young researchers Project Funding (MB-OTV). He was member of editorial board of a number of internationals scientific journals as Series on biomechanics (2019-), Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology “biomechanics” (2017-) Insight/Mechanics(2018-), Journal of Exercises, sports and orthopedics (2017-), EC Orthopedics (2017- ) and Reviewer for several international journals known in the field of biomechanics and mechanics (Scientific Reports (nuture.com), Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, etc). He is member of the American Society of Mechanical (ASME) Engineers European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) and the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). He has published more than 40 papers in international journals, books, and conferences.

Irina Dolganova has received her PhD in engineering sciences in 2017. She started her career by studying terahertz imaging and scattering of terahertz radiation. Currently, she is a researcher in the Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia (ISSP RAS) and an Associated Professor at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), Moscow, Russia. Her research interests include optics and biophotonics, light scattering, optical coherence tomography, and application of sapphire shaped crystals and novel materials for medicine and biology. She has been participated in a number of scientific conferences as regular and invited speaker.

Dr. Rahul Kher received B.E (Electronics) from Sardar Patel University in 1997, M.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2006 and Ph.D (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from Sardar Patel University in 2014. He has a teaching and research experience of over 20 years. His research interests include Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Medical image analysis and Healthcare monitoring systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was the founder Secretary of Signal Processing Society (SPS) Chapter of IEEE Gujarat Section during 2013-2015. He is a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Member of Institute of Engineers (India) and Senior Member of IETI- Hong Kong. He has visited Japan and US for attending International conferences.

Dr. Micaela Morettini obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Università Politecnica delle Marche in 2012 and the M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bologna in 2008. Dr. Morettini is currently affiliated with the Department of Information Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche. Her research activity is mainly focused on mathematical models and methods for quantitative physiology related to glucose-insulin regulatory systems and its alterations leading to Type 2 Diabetes.

Dr. Gholamreza Rouhi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics, respectively, both from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He pursued his career in Iran as a research Engineer, also as a lecturer where he has authored three books on physics prior to go to Canada for doing his doctoral studies. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, major in Biomechanics, from the University of Calgary for his investigations on bone remodelling and resorption theories using continuum mechanics and mixture theories. After earning his Ph.D., he started his previous career as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa in July 2006, where he was cross-appointed to the School of Human Kinetics. Dr. Rouhi is actively involved in various research projects including: bone remodelling theories; bone-implant interactions and stress shielding; nano-biomechanics; knee biomechanics; biomechanics of growth; and biomechanics of femoro-acetabular impingement.

Dr. Shoujun Zhou is a PhD, researcher and Master Tutor in Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are medical image processing, image guided therapy, and endovascular surgical robot. In July 2001, he started working as a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, First Military Medical University, China and obtained his PhD in July 2004. Afterwards, he completed postdoctoral research at Beijing Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University respectively. Since PhD, he has presided over a number of national and provincial research projects: one 863 projects, four projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and one project of the Strategic Partnership Program between Guangdong Province & Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Shoujun Zhou has published 40 papers of which 13 papers were retrieved by SCI. He has published 9 national invention patents.