IJBB - Editorial Board Member (EBM)

About Professor Rui Fonseca-Pinto

Rui Fonseca-Pinto received the Licenciado degree in Mathematics from the University of Évora in Portugal in 2000, and the M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics (Medical Physics) in 2004. He is post degree in Medical Physics and Biophysics and received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics in 2010 at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is also Medical Doctor- MSc from the Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon. As research interests he has been enrolled in several interdisciplinary research teams linking Medicine and Engineering, in particular his main research studies are in the field of the Autonomic Nervous System Assessment and Dermoscopic image processing of skin melanocytic lesions, from whom he as published journals papers and two book chapters. Currently he is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group, at the Leiria Branch of IT. He his also integrated member of the research team at CiTechare - Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology and Invited researcher at LABI - Laboratory of Bioinformatics at Foz do Iguaçu branch from Unioeste - Brazil.

Professor Rui Fonseca-Pinto handles review of manuscripts that are submitted under the following topics.

• Biomedical image processing (segmentation)
• Biomedical modelling and computer simulation
• E-health
• Biomedical image processing (fusion)
• Computational structural biology