Miguel Ángel González Ballester

Miguel Ángel González Ballester is an ICREA Research Professor at Simbiosys-DTIC (UPF) since October 2013. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (1996), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK (2000). He was a senior researcher at Toshiba Medical Systems (Japan), INRIA (France), and at the University of Bern (Switzerland), where he was leading the Surgical Technology Division at the Faculty of Medicine. From 2008 until 2013 he was in charge of the Research Department of the company Alma IT Systems SL in Barcelona. His research focuses on computerized medical image analysis and computer-assisted surgery, including image processing and computer vision, image-based diagnosis, medical imaging physics, computational modeling and simulation of virtual organs and surgical interventions, navigation in computer-assisted surgery, surgical devices and implants, surgical robotics and translational research focusing on certain clinical and industrial applications.