Current collaborations
NASA: Prognosis Center of Excellence
- Dr. Kai Goebel
- 2012 - present
Model-based prognosis algorithms for evolutive phoenomena are being developed in collaboration. They are applied to fatigue processes, to predict remanining life, and on medical diagnosis.
UCL: Ultrasonics Group
- Prof. Nader Saffari
- 2005 - present
Basic research on nonlinear ultrasound has been developed since 2005, including applications to fatigue of hip implants.
Kings College Hospital
- Prof. Kypros Nicolaides
- 2016 - present
Clinical tests and medical perspective to our common project on preterm birth assessment based on elastography.
Karolinska Institutet
- Prof. Kaj Lindekrantz
- 6/2016 - present
Medical engineering perspective to our common project on preterm birth assessment based on elastography.
Universite Paris 6: LIP
- Prof. Pascal Laugier
- 2008 - present
Bone quality assessment using ultrasound is a common subject of research since 2008.
Caltech: Applied Mathematics
- Prof. James Beck
- 2010 - present
Probabilistic inverse problem formulations and algorithms are being developed for application to tissue engineering and structural monitoring.
Rochester Institute of Technology: Center of Applied Mathematics
- Akhtar Khan
- 2012 - present
Inverse problems for tissue mechanics-based medical diagnosis is a common subject of research since 2012.
Airbus - Tech. Univ. Hamburg
- Prof. Karl Schulte
- 2011 - present
Prof. Karl Schulte is head of the Institute of Polymers and Composites of TUHH. The group has great experience in characterisation and modelling of polymer composites, and synthesis and characterisation of carbon based nanomaterials as nanotubes and its integration in polymers and fibre reinforced composites. We collaborate in their fatigue monitoring and modelling.
Univ. Manchester: Applied Mathematics
- Prof. William Parnell
- 2011 - present
This leading research team in solid mechanics, acoustics, linear and nonlinear elasticity, elastodynamics, homogenization and micromechanics is collaborating in understanding our experimental measurements and their relationship with diffuse damage for bone.
Andong National University
- Dr. Sang Youl Lee
- 2006 - present
The inverse problem is jointly applied to monitor damage on composite structures for civil engineering.
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
- Dr. Gloria Frontini
- 2010 - present
The inverse problem and ultrasonics are jointly applied to diagnose on complex structures.
Hospital San Cecilio: Gynecology
- Prof. Jesús Florido, Prof. Francisca Molina
- 12/2006 - present
Jesús Florido, Francisca Molina, and their team provide the clinical tests and medical perspective to our common project on preterm birth assessment based on elastography.
IBIMER (UGR)
- Prof. Juan Antonio Marchal
- 2014 - present
Juan Antonio Marchal and their team provide the tissue engineering perspective and tests to our common project on ultrasonic promotion of chemotherapy on cancel stem cells, as well as 3D bioprinting and biorreactors.
Tissue Engineering Group (UGR)
- Prof. Antonio Campos, Prof. Miguel Alaminos
- 2010 - present
Specialists in artificial tissue creation linked to clinical activity host part of our END Lab. We monitor and control tissue generation, design and develop biorreactors, and research ultrasound-tissue interaction.
Molecular Nanotechnology Lab. (Univ. Alicante)
- Prof. Javier Garcia
- 2002 - present
This leading research group devoted to the synthesis, characterization and application of advanced nanomaterials coworks in nanofunctionalization of carbon fiber to create cheaper and stronger environmentally friendly CFRP.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Hospital Virgen de las Nieves)
- Miguel D. Membrilla Mesa, MD
- 2013 - present
This team interacts with diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, providing us with the bedside a application of ultrasound for osteoporosis diagnosis.
Nuclear Medicine (Hospital Virgen de las Nieves)
- Prof. José Manuel Llamas Elvira
- 2013 - present
José Manuel Llamas Elvira and his team of the Nuclear Medicine Department provide us facilities to obtain dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measurements to contrast our proposal with the actual gold-standart technique for osteoporosis assessment.
Department of Signal Theory (Univ. Granada)
- Prof. Antonio Peinado, Prof. Ángel Gómez
- 2008 - present
Antonio Peinado, Ángel Gómez and their team provide us their broad experience in signal theory for robust parameter extraction of ultrasonic signals to obtain relevant structural information from tested specimens.
