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Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ioannina / Biomedical Research Institute - Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas

Prof. Dimitrios I. Fotiadis (Male), 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 Depart. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, Director of MEDlab, Affiliated Member of BRI-FORTH and the co-founder of PD Neurotechnology Ltd, UK.

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 250 R&D funded projects. He is the author or coauthor of more than 400 papers in scientific journals, 600 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and more than 50 chapters in books.

He is also the author/editor of 30 books. His work has received more than 28,000 citations (h-index=75).

He is a IEEE EMBS Fellow, EAMBES Fellow, Fellow of the IAMBE, Fellow of the AIAA, member of the IEEE TC of BHI, EiC of IEEE JBHI and of the EB in IEEE RBME, AE for IEEE OJEMB.

His research interests include multiscale modelling of human tissues and organs, intelligent wearable/implantable devices for automated diagnosis, processing of big medical data, machine learning, sensor informatics, image informatics, and bioinformatics.

He is the recipient of many scientific awards including the one by the Academy of Athens.