Partners
Higher Educational Institutions - HEIs
- European University Cyprus (EUC)
- Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
- https://euc.ac.cy/en/
- Hochschule Aalen - Technik & Wirtschaft - Aalen University
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Aalen, Germany
- https://www.hs-aalen.de/de
- Università Politecnica delle Marche
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Ancona, Italy
- https://www.univpm.it/
Key People
Andreas Stylianou
Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Research Methods and Applied Biophysics
Department of Health Sciences
School of Sciences
European University Cyprus
Short Bio
Dr. Andreas Stylianou is an Assistant Professor of Research Methods and Applied Biophysics of the School of Sciences at European University Cyprus. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2014. He has also received a Bachelor of Science/Master of Science in Applied Physics from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Science of the NTUA in 2007 and a Master of Science in Medical Physics (2011) from the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics of the Open University, United Kingdom. Finally, he holds a PhD in Social Aspects of Health (2018) from the graduate program of Health Care Management of the Faculty of Economies and Management of the Open University of Cyprus. In 2015 his postdoctoral project proposal was funded by the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships and in 2019 he received the University of Cyprus Advanced Post-doctoral Research Fellowship. He is also the recipient of the prestigious “Young Researcher Award” for 2019 from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Stylianou is leading the Cancer Mechanobiology and Applied Biophysics group, part of the Basic and Translational Cancer Research Center (BTCRC) at European University Cyprus. His primary academic interests include the investigation of tumor microenvironment mechanical and biophysical properties, the understanding of cancer and stromal cells mechanosensing and the cell-substrate interactions. Additionally, the study of tumor fibrosis, the role of collagen in cancer progression and the identification of collagen-based biomarkers lie within his research interests. Dr Stylianou has published more than 38 peer-reviews articles (h-index: 15-Scopus, 18-GoogleScholar), 4 book chapters, 12 articles in referred conference proceeding and has presented his work in more than 38 conference presentation in national and international conferences.
Andreas Walter
Professor
Biophotonics and Bioimaging
Department of Optical Engineering
Aalen University Germany
Short Bio
Prof Dr Andreas Walter studied physics and biophysics at the University of Heidelberg and in Sankt Petersburg on a Baden-Wuerttemberg Scholarship. He spent his research career developing and applying various imaging techniques for life sciences, including fluorescence, super-resolution, cryo-light, transmission electron and scanning electron microscopy, and correlative soft x-ray tomography. After his tenure as a guest scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) to study chromatin organization with fluorescence microscopy-based methods, he did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt on method development in electron microscopy. He finished his studies with distinction (summa con laude). Prof Dr Walter received a DFG (German Research Association) Fellowship and a fellowship of the German Scholars Organization to continue his research in imaging at the University of California San Francisco and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to correlate soft x-ray tomography and cryo-light microscopy. From 2016 till 2022, Prof Dr Walter worked as the Director of Austrian BioImaging (CMI) where he coordinated more than 35 facilities and research groups for preclinical and biological imaging to develop and establish novel multimodal imaging pipelines. In 2022, Prof Dr Walter was appointed professor of Biophotonics and Bioimaging at Aalen University, Germany, where his group aims at developing novel correlative microscopy solutions to facilitate imaging across scales in life sciences. He also holds an MBA degree in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Laura Burattini
Professor
Bioengineering
Università Politecnica delle Marche
President of the Unified Council of the Biomedical Engineering Degree
Short Bio
Laura Burattini received the PdD degree in electrical/biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester (USA) in 1998 and the master’s degree in electrical/biomedical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Itay) in 1993. After the PhD, she had some working experience in private companies. Since 2006 she joints the Department of Information Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche where she is currently faculty member as Full Professor of Bioengineering and President of the Unified Council of the Biomedical Engineering Degree. She teaches the courses of “Bioengineering” (bachelor degree) and “Biomedical Signal and Image Processing” (master degree), and is responsible of the “Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab” and “Bioengineering Lab”. She is promoter of the Erasmus exchange with several foreign universities. She joins several scientific associations and is member of the board of directors of the Italian National Group of Bioengineering (GNB), of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE) and of the Computing in Cardiology society (CinC). She contributed to found B.M.E.D. Bio-Medical Engineering Development srl, an academic spin-off that she served as CEO and President from 2012 to 2016. She is currently associate Editor of “Biomedical Signal Processing and Control”, “Frontiers in Network Physiology” and “Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology”. Her main research interests are processing, modelling and classification of biomedical signals and images, particularly of the cardiac, nervous, motor, and metabolic physiological systems. She is author more than 130 journal papers and 170 proceedings of international conferences.
Micaela Morettini
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Engineering
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Short Bio
Dr. Micaela Morettini is currently a tenure-track assistant professor (RTD-B) in Bioengineering at the Department of Information Engineering of Università Politecnica delle Marche (UnivPM), where she is in charge of the DIABETES LAB (Laboratory of Diabetes and Metabolism InvestigAtion through biomedical engineering, technology and simulation). At UnivPM she teaches the following courses: Medical Informatics (for the Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering), Models and Control of Biological Systems (for the Master degree in Biomedical Engineering, taught in English) and Medical Informatics – electronic and computer bioengineering (for the master degree in Medicine and Surgery, also known as Medicine and Technology, taught in English). Her research interests include the development of in silico models of physiological systems, digital health applications and digital biomarkers, clinical decision support systems, biomedical signal processing. The applications are mainly concentrated in the metabolic/diabetic field but also concern the cardiovascular and respiratory fields. She is co-author of: 80 contributions in international scientific journals (74 articles, 2 volume contributions, 4 abstracts) and 76 contributions in international conference proceedings (73 contributions, 3 abstracts).
Institutional website: https://www.univpm.it/micaela.morettini
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8327-8379
SCOPUS (Author ID: 43861493900): h-index 16; documents 149; citations 903 (last update august 2024)