Laura Roa

Laura María Roa Romero is a Spanish biomedical engineer, and a University Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Seville,[1] which she founded in 1986. She has a doctorate from the University of Seville, earned in 1980.[2]

Recognition

Roa was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, "for contributions to new resuscitation therapies for burn patients that are based on mathematical modeling, simulation, and control techniques".[3] She is also a fellow of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Sevilla, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.[1][2]

She was president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (Spanish Biomedical Engineering Society) from 2004 to 2012.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "PhD. Laura María Roa Romero", Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Seville, retrieved 2021-07-19
  2. ^ a b "Laura María Roa Romero, el ingenio de construir sistemas para mantener la 'máquina' del cuerpo humano" (PDF), Perfiles (in Spanish), Fundación Descubre, pp. 24–27, December 2017
  3. ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-07-16
  4. ^ "Homenaje a Laura M. Roa", CASEIB 2017 (in Spanish), Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica, 1 December 2017