Biographical Sketch

Virginia Laura Ballarin is a professor at FASTA University and Director of the Computer Science and Health Group within the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine.

She is also Professor in the Department of Electronics at the National University of Mar del Plata and Director of the Image Processing Laboratory (PILab) at the Institute of Scientific and Technological Research in Electronics from 1989 to 2023.

She has supervised over 20 postgraduate theses and 25 undergraduate theses, all in the field of Biomedical Image Processing. She is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 180 papers presented at national and international conferences.

She is the creator and Director of the Doctoral Program in Bioengineering at the National University of Mar del Plata and Editor of the Argentine Journal of Bioengineering from 2015 to 2023.

She served as President of the Argentine Society of Bioengineering from 2013 to 2015; President of the Argentine Chapter of EMBS IEEE from 2016 to 2018, and Chair of the Committee of Women in MBE of the IFMBE from 2018 to 2022.

Currently, she is the Vice President of IEEE Argentina, Vice President and President-Elect of the Regional Council of Biomedical Engineering for Latin America (CORAL), and a member of the Administrative Council of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) from 2022 to 2028.