President

Joachim Nagel

Joachim Nagel received his Diploma in Physics from the University of the Saarland in 1974 and his D.Sc. in Medical Engineering Physics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1979. Following appointments in industry and as a faculty member at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, he joined the University of Miami, Florida, USA, in 1986, where he served as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (1986-96), Professor of Radiology (1990-96), and Professor of Psychophysiology (1988-96), Director of the Medical Imaging & Instrumentation Lab (1986-1996), and Director of Biomedical Engineering at the Behavioral Medicine Research Center (1986-1996). In 1996, he accepted his current position as Professor (Chair) of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart with appointments as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at the University of Miami.

He is the President of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), a member of the Administrative Council of the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, a member of the Executive Board of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES) and the Chairman of the Academic Division of EAMBES. Joachim Nagel is chairman of the EAMBES Committee for Education and Accreditation, and the IFMBE Publications and Publicity Committee. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Biocybernetics of the Polish Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and a member of the UNESCO/UATI World Academy of Biomedical Technologies. He has served on the IEEE/EMBS Administrative Committee as a European and as a US representative, and he was a member of the IEEE Engineering Research & Development Committee (Technology Policy Council).

Joachim Nagel is an editor of the IOPP Book Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He has served as an Editor for the BMES journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering (1989-94), the IOPP journal Physiological Measurement (1994-98), and he was a member of numerous Editorial and Review Boards. He served as a consultant to NIH, NHLBI, the Scientists' Institute for Public Information, the American Cancer Society - ACS/NASA Subcommittee, and numerous companies. He has been funded by NIH and the DFG, and he has taken part in EU-funded projects.

His main research interests are in the fields of cardiovascular monitoring, instrumentation and physiology, medical image acquisition and image processing, physiological signals, MEMS, neurosciences, biological effects of ultrasound, and e-health. He has published more than 180 scientific papers, books, book chapters, patents, and conference papers.