Laura M. Roa

Laura M. Roa was born in Cádiz, Spain. She received the Ph.D degree (cum laude) from the University of Seville, Spain, in 1980. She is Titular Professor of Systems and Automatics Engineering at the University of Seville. In 1988, she founded the Biomedical Engineering Research Group at the University of Seville, which she is in charge of.

She has been author of more than 160 papers, and has directed different Ph.D Thesis and projects funded by various public Spanish organizations and private companies. The research topics link different disciplines, including physiology, mathematical modeling, systems engineering and integration of information technologies. Her research activities have covered development of mathematical models for complex physiological systems, the design of intelligent algorithms for clinical applications, dosing the therapies for burn and renal patients using optimal control techniques, and information technologies and communications applied to telemedicine, homecare technologies and acessibility for elderly and disabled people.

Dr. Roa is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow of the Intenational Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering Sciences (IAMBES) and a member of the Royal Medical Academy of Seville, Spain. She currently serves as President of the Spanish Biomedical Engineering Society (SEIB), and Representative of Europe Region in the Administrative Council of the IEEE-EMBS. She is member of the Advisory Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.