Award Competitions
Awards at EMBEC 2020
There are a number of awards provided by different societies associated with EMBEC 2020.
The various award categories with a summary of eligibility criteria are listed below.
Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Award will be provided by The IFMBE – The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Eligibility: A Young Investigator is a person under and up to the age of 35 (at submission deadline date) working in the field of biomedical engineering and science. The Young Investigator must be the first author of the full paper submitted, and must present the work in person to be eligible for the award.
Please note that since the award finalists will be preselected before the Conference, full paper submission is mandatory so as to enable the Awards Committee to select the finalists beforehand.
The full paper must be written and formatted in accordance with submission instructions that can be found both here and here.
Student Award
The Student Award will be provided by DMBTS – The Slovenian Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Eligibility: A Student is a person under and up to the age of 27 (at submission deadline date) without a PhD degree, working in the field of biomedical engineering and science. Student must be the first author of the submitted work, and must present the work in person at the Conferece to be eligible for the award.
EAMBES Fellows' Travel Award
The fellows of the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering (www.eambes.org/fellows) will provide 10 travel grants of 800 €* to participate at the EMBEC meeting. Selection will be based on the quality of the submitted full paper to EMBEC. The selection will be announced to the recipients and announced at the EMBEC conference dinner and web page.
Eligibility: Early-career Researchers (under 35 years), who will, of course, present their work at EMBEC 2020 themselves.
Please note that since the award finalists will be preselected before the Conference, full paper submission is mandatory so as to enable the Awards Committee to select the finalists beforehand.
The full paper must be written and formatted in accordance with submission instructions that can be found both here and here.
*corrected on 3 March from previously erroneous “8 grants of 1000 €”
IFMBE Young Investigator Competition Finalists
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the IFMBE Young Investigator Competition, selected based on the average scores received from reviewers for submitted full-length papers of eligible competitors according to the IFMBE guidelines. The finalists are listed in alphabetical order.
IFMBE Young Investigator Competition Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Giuseppe Cesarelli for paper:
DMAIC approach for the reduction of healthcare-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Giuseppe Cesarelli, Emma Montella, Arianna Scala, Eliana Raiola, Maria Triassi and Giovanni Improta)
Nikolay Dukov for paper:
Experimental evaluation of physical breast phantoms for 2D and 3D breast x-ray imaging techniques (Nikolay Dukov, Kristina Bliznakova, Tsvetelina Teneva, Stoyko Marinov, Predrag Bakic, Hilde Bosmans, Zhivko Bliznakov)
Dániel Hadházi for paper:
Anisotropic iteratively re-weighted TV regularized reconstruction for linear tomosynthesis (Dániel Hadházi and Gábor Horváth)
Alexandra Koulouri for paper:
Simultaneous Skull Conductivity and Focal Source Imaging from EEG Recordings with the help of Bayesian Uncertainty Modelling (Alexandra Koulouri and Ville Rimpiläinen)
David Perpetuini for paper:
Can Functional Infrared Thermal Imaging Estimate Mental Workload In Drivers As Evaluated By Sample Entropy of the fNIRS signal? (David Perpetuini, Daniela Cardone, Chiara Filippini, Edoardo Spadolini, Lorenza Mancini, Antonio Maria Chiarelli, and Arcangelo Merla)
Maksym Tymkovych for paper:
Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Analysis of Ice Recrystallization Process for Cryopreservation (Maksym Tymkovych, Oleksandr Gryshkov, Karina Selivanova, Vitalii Mutsenko, Oleg Avrunin, and Birgit Glasmacher)
Jamie O. D. Williams for paper:
Graphene- and Graphite-based Polyorganosiloxane Composite Ligaments for Sensory Feedback in Upper-Limb Prosthetics (Jamie O. D. Williams, Rob C. Harris, and Gregory A. Solan).
The IFMBE Awards Committee
The Awards Committee, consisting of the following distinguished researchers, will evaluate the finalists’ papers and propose the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the IFMBE Young Investigator’s Awards according to the IFMBE guidelines.
Almir Badnjević (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Ákos Jobbágy (Hungary)
Igor Lacković (Croatia), Chair of the AC
Leandro Pecchia (United Kingdom)
Heinrich Schima (Austria)