Officers and Members of the IFMBE Administrative Council 2000-2003: Part 2

This is the second part presenting the Members and Officers of the IFMBE Administrative Council after the elections that took place in the General Assembly in Chicago in connection with the World Congress.

Administrative Council Member Fernando C. Infantosi

Fernando C. Infantosi was born in 1947 in São Paulo, Brazil. He graduated in electrical engineering in 1971, and obtained his MSc (1975) in Biomedical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He received his PhD from the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of London, UK, in 1986.   

He began his academic career in 1975 at the Biomedical Engineering Program at UFRJ, where he has also been Head of Department and is currently Professor of Biomedical Signal Processing. He is a former Director of the Post-Graduate Engineering Institution (COPPE/ UFRJ).   

He is one of the founders of the Brazilian Biomedical Engineering Society (SBEB) and was its first treasurer (1975-79). Later, he became President of SBEB on two different occasions (1979-81 and 1994-96) and he has been just elected President for 2001-02. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of Biomedical Engineering (1987-91 and 1998-2000). He was the chairperson of the Finance Committee of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering – Rio'94, and was thus responsible for its financial success. He is a member of various Brazilian governmental boards of the Ministries of Education, Science & Technology, and Health.   

At Nice'97 he was elected member of the IFMBE Administrative Council for a three-year period. During this period, he acted as a liaison for CORAL and was a member of the Byelaws Committee. He is also currently Vice-President of CORAL. His main research interests are in biological signal processing, particularly those related to brain function.

Administrative Council Member Marc Nyssen

Marc Nyssen studied electrical engineering at the Free University Brussels (V.U.B.), graduating in electronics in 1975. In 1978, he obtained his engineering degree in computer science. In 1983, he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering, after defending a thesis entitled: "New Architectures for Optoelectronic Signal Processing".   

From 1976 to 1977 he was a research assistant in the Electronics Department at the V.U.B. From 1978 to 1983 he worked in the Medical Informatics Department, responsible for the research network and server computing infrastructure of the new medical campus of the Brussels Free University, in Jette, Brussels. He worked first as a research assistant, and from 1985 as an associate professor.   

As National Secretary he represents Belgium in the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (IFMBE), where he was elected as a member of the Administrative Council in July 2000. He is founder of the Belgian National Committee on Biomedical Engineering, associated with the Belgian National Academy of Science.   

His interests lie in different aspects of computerised production lines, mainly for the scientist, with emphasis on network (Internet) communication aspects. Image processing related hardware and software systems have been studied and realised under his guidance, as research projects or as theses by students in engineering or bio-engineering and medical research.   

He has been teaching courses on digital signal processing, biomedical data processing, UNIX, computer science, computer applications in dentistry and medical informatics, the Internet and the world wide web to students from both engineering and medical faculties and for postgraduate courses in human ecology and biomedical engineering. He has been nominated co-ordinator of the block computer science in the new inter-university postgraduate programme in biomedical engineering in Flanders.

Mark Nyssen