Marco Di Rienzo received his MSc degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Milano, Italy, in 1980. He was Coordinator of technological research in cardiovascular, wearable sensors and telemedicine areas at the IRCCS Fondazione Don Gnocchi, and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Università Statale, Milan.
His research interests included signal processing, modelling of cardiovascular control, cardiac mechanics, sleep, space physiology, seismocardiography and wearable systems for bio-signal monitoring. He authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and was co-inventor of three patents.
Reason for membership: ESGCO 2008 organizer
E-Mail: mdirienzo@cbi.dongnocchi.it
Dirk Hoyer received a Diploma in Biomedical Engineering and Cybernetics from the Technical University Ilmenau in 1979, a PhD in nonlinear modelling of physiological behavior in 1985, and a professorship in Biosystem Analysis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2009.
Since 1984, he conducted research on cardiovascular signals at the Institute for Pathophysiology, and since 2006 at the Biomagnetic Center, Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital. In collaboration with the Department of Obstetrics, he runs a cooperative research group on Prenatal Monitoring of Autonomic Maturation.
Reason for membership: ESGCO 2006 organizer
E-Mail: dirk.hoyer@med.uni-jena.de
Peter van Leeuwen received a BEd in Mathematics from the Université de Montreal in 1971. After teaching, he switched to medical research in 1980 and obtained his PhD in Medical Science from the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, in 1989, followed by his habilitation and a professorship in electrophysiology.
He was head of the Department of Biomagnetism of the Grönemeyer Institute of Microtherapy between 1992 and 2014. His research focuses on adult and fetal non-invasive cardiology, biomagnetism, electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics.
Reason for membership: ad honorem
E-Mail: sci@van-leeuwen.de
