Bio
Alejandro (Alex) obtained his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona) in 1996. He pursued a PhD in Medicine at the Image Sciences Institute of the University Medical Centre Utrecht on model-based cardiovascular image analysis. Prof Frangi holds the Bicentennial Turing Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, with joint appointments at the Department of Computer Science (School of Engineering) and the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science (School of Health Sciences). He is the Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute (www.pankhurst.manchester.ac.uk), a testament to his leadership in health technology research and innovation. He is also the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, with a focus on precision computational medicine for medical devices in silico trials. His contributions to the field have been recognised with a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2023) and the IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award (2021) by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Research interests
Professor Frangi's primary research interests lie at the crossroads of medical image analysis and modelling, emphasising machine learning (phenomenological models) and computational physiology (mechanistic models). He is particularly interested in statistical methods applied to population imaging and in silico clinical trials. He is also interested in physics-informed deep learning and, more generally, integrating prior knowledge with otherwise data-driven approaches. His highly interdisciplinary work has garnered international recognition, and he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He also leads the InSilicoUK Pro-Innovation Regulations Network (www.insilicouk.org).
Achievements and awards
Prof Frangi edited several books and editorial articles and over 260 journal papers in key international journals of his research field. He has been times Guest Editor of special issues of IEEE Trans Med Imaging, IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, and Medical Image Analysis journals. He was chair of the 3rd International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart (FIMH05) held in Barcelona in June 2005, Publications Chair of the IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2006), Programme Committee Member of various editions of the Intl Conf on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) (Brisbane, AU, 2007; Beijing CN, 2010; Toronto CA 2011; Nice FR 2012; Nagoya JP 2013), International Liaison of ISBI 2009, Tutorials Co-Chair of MICCAI 2010, and Programme Co-chair of MICCAI 2015. He was also General Chair for ISBI 2012 held in Barcelona and General Chair of MICCAI 2018 held in Granada, Spain. He will be General Chair of Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) in 2023 in Bariloche, Argentina.