Kalju Meigas


Kalju Meigas was born in 1951 in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated in radio-engineering from the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute in 1974 and spent several years working as radio engineer in industry. After joining the Tallinn Technical University he continued with his dissertation and obtained his MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) in electrical engineering from the same university. He acted as Associate Professor in the Institute of Telecommunication and later in the Biomedical Engineering Centre. Currently he is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Chair at Tallinn Technical University.

His research activities include new methods in laser diagnostics and laser applications in biomedical engineering. He is author or co-author of more than 100 published articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings, book chapters and abstracts.

He is one of the founders of the Estonian Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics and is currently the National Secretary of this Society. He was also the Chairman of Organising Committee of 11 Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering held in Tallinn. For many years he has been an Advisor of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, Member of Commission of Medical Technology in Estonia and Board Member of Estonian Association of Engineers.

Issues for IFMBE

  • To support strongly the interests of our member societies;
  • To improve the collaboration between medical and biological engineering organisations engaged in health care delivery and in biomedical research and its applications;
  • To support the invasion of BME into new fields of life science technologies;
  • To promote BME education, particularly with regard to curricular development, inter-institutional cooperation, mobility schemes and integrated programs of study, training, and research.

Professor Kalju Meigas
Tallinn Technical University,
Biomedical Engineering Centre
Ehitajate 5
EE 19086 Tallinn
ESTONIA
Tel: +372-2538046
Fax: +372 -2532446
E-mail: kalju@bmt.cb.ttu.ee