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KU Leuven
KU Leuven, founded in 1425 and located in Leuven, Belgium, is one of Europe’s oldest and most renowned research universities. With additional campuses across Flanders, it combines a long academic tradition with a strong focus on innovation and global engagement. The university offers more than 100 English-taught programmes across 15 faculties, attracting more than 60.000 students from around the world. Its education is deeply rooted in research, with students learning directly from academics at the forefront of their fields. KU Leuven promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and maintains close connections with industry, society, and international partners. Over its six centuries of history, it has built a reputation for scientific excellence, societal impact, and an open, international academic community committed to addressing contemporary global challenges.
Jean-Marie Aerts
Full proferssor at KU Leuven
Jean-Marie Aerts holds a Master of Science degree in Bio-engineering and a PhD in Applied Biological Engineering (2001) from the KU Leuven in Belgium.
Currently, he is heading the Department of Biosystems at KU Leuven and is co-director of the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute (DigiSoc) and co-promotor of Leuven Health Technology Center (L-HTC).
He is responsible for the Master in Human Health Engineering at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering of KU Leuven.
Jean-Marie Aerts has been a visiting researcher at the Engineering Department of Lancaster University and at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Oxford and is already for many years an IEEE member.
His research is focusing on the development of advanced mobile technology for health applications (mHealth), combining wearable hardware with dynamic data-based models as a basis for monitoring and control algorithms for improving performance, health and/or well-being of individuals. Considered applications range from athlete to patient monitoring and from physiological to mental status monitoring.
The last 20 years his research has contributed to the start of three spin-off companies, ten patent applications and several collaborations with industrial partners.
Frank Rademakers
Emeritus professor at KU Leuven, Belgium
He did his medical studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1979. He then went for specialty training in Cardiology and started to work in 1984 in the cardiology department of the University Hospital Antwerp. From 1987 to 1991 he did his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. From 1991 on he was parttime at UZ Leuven where he moved fulltime in 1998 in the cardiology department.
He retired in 2020 from his managerial position at UZ KU Leuven, the University Hospitals Leuven, where he served 15 years in the management committee of the hospital as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Technology and Innovation Officer. There he has always shown a keen interest in putting the patient’s needs and expectations central while involving the patients themselves as active participants in their path towards optimal health: maximising the health potential of every person in our care.
His main research is on cardiac function using different imaging techniques, including echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) which he introduced in Belgium after performing his PhD on cardiac mechanics defined with CMR tagging at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 1991. Being responsible for quality management in the hospital as well as ICT, his research also moved into quality and process management in health care and Artificial Intelligence use in medicine; he presently co-promotes 2 PhD students working on AI applications as medical decision support tools and was the task lead in the EU CORE-MD consortium for the implementation of the EU Medical Device Regulation with respect to AI applications.
He sits on several boards and committees of hospitals and research institutes as external expert.
He retired in 2020 from his managerial position at UZ KU Leuven, the University Hospitals Leuven, where he served 15 years in the management committee of the hospital as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Technology and Innovation Officer. There he has always shown a keen interest in putting the patient’s needs and expectations central while involving the patients themselves as active participants in their path towards optimal health: maximising the health potential of every person in our care.
His main research is on cardiac function using different imaging techniques, including echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) which he introduced in Belgium after performing his PhD on cardiac mechanics defined with CMR tagging at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 1991. Being responsible for quality management in the hospital as well as ICT, his research also moved into quality and process management in health care and Artificial Intelligence use in medicine; he presently co-promotes 2 PhD students working on AI applications as medical decision support tools and was the task lead in the EU CORE-MD consortium for the implementation of the EU Medical Device Regulation with respect to AI applications.
He sits on several boards and committees of hospitals and research institutes as external expert.
