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Prof. Alejandro Frangi obtained his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona) in 1996. He subsequently carried out research on electrical impedance tomography for image reconstruction and noise characterization at the same institution. He obtained his PhD in 2001 at the Image Sciences Institute (www.isi.uu.nl) of the University Medical Center Utrecht on model-based cardiovascular image analysis. During this period he was visiting researcher at Imperial College in London, UK, and in Philips Medical Systems BV, The Netherlands. Prof. Frangi is Professor of Biomedical Image Computing at the University of Sheffield (USFD), Sheffield, UK, with a joint appointment at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. He is also an ICREA-Academia Researcher (www.icrea.cat). He is the General Director of INSIGNEO Institute for Biomedical Imaging & Modelling (www.insigneo.org) at the University of Sheffield, a cross-faculty interdisciplinary research institute in the Virtual Physiological Human domain. He also leads the Center for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (www.cistib.upf.edu) at UPF.
Prof. Frangi has edited a book, published 5 editorial articles and over 85 journal papers in key international journals of his research field, as well as more than over 120 book chapters and international conference papers with an h-index over 20 and an average number of citations per paper over 14.6 according to ISI WoK. He has been two times Guest Editor of special issues of IEEE Trans on Medical Imaging, one on IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, and one of Medical Image Analysis journal. He was chair of the 3rd International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart (FIMH05) held in Barcelona in June 2005, Publications Chair of the IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2006), Programme Committee Member of various editions of the Intl. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) (Brisbane, AU, 2007; Beijing CN, 2010; Toronto CA 2011; Nice FR 2012), International Liaison of ISBI 2009, Tutorials Co-Chair of MICCAI 2010, and Program Co-chair of MICCAI 2015. He will be one of the two general chairmen for ISBI 2012 to be held in Barcelona. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, the Intl Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics and Recent Patents in Biomedical Engineering journals. Prof. Frangi was a recipient of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Early Career Award in 2006, the Prizes for Knowledge Transfer (2008) in the Information and Communication Technologies domain and of Teaching Excellence (2008, 2010) by the Social Council of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Finally, he was awarded one of the 40 ICREA-Academia Prizes by the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) in 2009.
His main research interests are in biomedical image computing and image-based computational physiology. Dr. Frangi has been principal investigator or scientific coordinator of over 20 national and European projects, both funded by public and private bodies. During 1/2006-3/2010 he was coordinator of the @neurIST (www.aneurist.org), a 12.6M€ European Integrated Project and during 1/2006-12/2009 he was scientific co-PI for the Spanish CENIT Technology Platform CDTEAM funded with 15.7M€ by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through CDTI. He now participates in the euHeart Integrated Project, in the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (www.vph-noe.eu) and is Scientific Coordinator of the CENIT Technology Platform cvREMOD (www.cvremod.com) funded with 13.6M€ by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through CDTI. His lab is also member of the Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Center for Networked Biomedical Research (www.ciber-bbn.org) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III).
