Curriculum Vitae

(Updated Jul 17 2014)

Academic credentials

Degree: Ingeniero de Telecomunicación (Engineer in Telecommunication)
Institution: Universidad de Valladolid
Date: April 16 1999

Degree: PhD
Institution: Dep. Teoría de las Señal and Comunicaciones e Ingeniería Telemática, Univ. de Valladolid
Date: Nov. 13 2003

Academic appointments

2018-present Catedrático de Universidad (Full professor),
ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid

2009-2018 Profesor titular de Universidad (Tenured professor),
ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid

2008-2009 Associate professor (Contratado Doctor),
ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid

2006-2007 Visiting As. Prof. of Radiology,
BWH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

2004-2007 Assistant professor (Ayudante Doctor),
ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid

2001-2004 Research Assistant (Ayudante de Escuela Universitaria),
ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid

May-Jul. 2004 Visiting Prof.
Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru.

Jul-.Aug 2001 Reach Associate A,
ISTS, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

International Stays

INSTITUTION: Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
PLACE: Hanover, NH, USA
DATES: 1/07/01-31/08/01
Research Associate A

INSTITUTION: Centro Loyola (Ilo) and Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya
PLACE: Lima (Peru) and Ilo (Peru)
DATES: 08/05/04-08/07/04
Invited

INSTITUTION: LMI, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dept. of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
PLACE: Boston, MA, USA
DATES: 1/03/06-28/02/07
Postdoc./ Fulbright

INSTITUTION: Bogaziçi University (SIMILAR NoE)
PLACE: Istanbul, Turkey
DATES: 16/07/2007-10/08/2007
eNTERFACE’07: Summer Workshop

Fellowships and awards

1999-2000 Research scholarship (Junta de Castilla y León, Spain). Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

2000-2001 Research scholarship (FEDER). Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

2006-2007 Postdoctoral research fellowship. Fulbright Commission and Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Harvard Med. School, Boston, MA. REF: FU2005-0716

2008 Scholarship for short stays, Universidad de Valladolid. LMI, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Med. School, Boston, MA, USA.

Direction of Research Projects(Research Grants and contracts)

1. Estimation of the probability of orientation of neural tracts inside the white matter of the brain to solve fiber crossing in DMRI. SAN126/VA33/09. FUNDING: Junta de Castilla y León, Public Health General Management. 2009-2010. 24,800.00 € (Regional)
2. Sequential methods for real time estimation of structure and conectivity of neural tracts inside the brain from general diffusion models in MRI. VA039A10-2. FUNDING: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación. 2010-2011. 28,400.00€. (Regional)
3. Advanced Diffusion Imaging processing in clinical Neuroscience: Neurorepair after Stroke, Etiology of ADHD, and Brain Tumor Surgery Planning. TEC2010-17982. FUNDING: Ministerio de Ciencia y tecnología. 2011–2013. 163,592.00 € (National).
4. DMRI acquisition and processing related to visual rehabilitation in Hemianopsia. Hospital Clínico Universitario (Valladolid, Spain). 2013-2014. 5,000 € (Research contract)
5. Clinical biomarkers with Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: from research tool to diagnosis, Ministerio de economía y competitividad. TEC2013-44194-P 235,900 € (provisional)

Supervisor of international stays

1. Luis González Jaime, (University of Ghent, Belgium, Sept-Dec 2012, May-Jul. 2013)
2. Tomasz Pieciak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, Feb-Jun 2014).
3. Jean Marie Vianney Kinani (Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México, Sept 2014-Feb- 2015)

Relevant participation in scientific meetings

2008 Chair and organizer of “Workshop on Tensors in image processing and computer vision” in IEEE CVPR 2008, Anchorage, Alaska.

2010 “Invited expert” to Tutorial: 10 Questions to Ask Your Diffusion MRI Expert. MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China.

European projects

2003-2007 The European research taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication. FP6-507609. VI Frame Program.

2008-2012 Virtual Physiological Human. (European Research Network). VII Frame Program. FP7‐223920.

Editorial boards

2006-present Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems

2012-present ISRN Biomedical Engineering

2013-present Advances in Medicine

2013-present The Open Access Journal of Science and Technology

Grant reviewer

01/2014 Postdoctoral Fellow 2014, The Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Belgium

03/2011 Research Project following and evaluation 2008. Ministry of Science (Spain)

06/2011 Reviewing and selection of national research grants 2011. Ministry of Science (Spain)

Patents

Método de filtrado y realce de imágenes ultrasónicas 2D, 3D y 3D+t (A method for filtering and enhancement of ultrasonic images; 2D, 3D, 3D+t). G. Vegas Sánchez-Ferrero, S. Aja Fernández, M. Martín Fernández, C. Alberola López. Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas www.oepm.es (National Patent). (Under review, submitted in May 2014, Register number P201430673).

Prizes, awards and quality assessment

2014 Positive assessment by National Agency of Quality (ANECA) required to be contracted as Full professor (Catedrático de Universidad) http://www.aneca.es/eng/Programmes/ACADEMIA (assessments for prior positions in 2003, 2004 and 2007)

2013 DOCENTIA: Teaching Performance Assessment (08/09-11/12) as “excellent” (89.76/100). http://www.aneca.es/eng/Programmes/DOCENTIA

2012 Awards of supervised student: Gabriel Ramos LLordén: Best Proyecto Fin de Carrera (Master Thesis). ASISA Prize in Engineering and medicine 2012. Official College of Telecom. Engineers.