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Alejandro F. Frangi is the Bicentenary Turing Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Manchester, with joint appointments in the School of Computer Science and School of Health Sciences. He serves as Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute and leads the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre's Digital Infrastructure theme.
His education includes a PhD in Medicine from Utrecht University (2001) and an undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1996). He holds honorary positions at KU Leuven and is an Alan Turing Institute Fellow.
Professor Frangi's research bridges medical image analysis and computational modeling, with emphases on:
- Machine learning for population imaging
- In silico clinical trials for medical devices
- Computational physiology in cardiovascular and neurosciences
- Statistical methods for image-based biomarkers
Awards and honors include:
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Technical Achievement Award (2021)
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2023)
- ERC Advanced Grant recipient
- President's International Initiative Award from Chinese Academy of Science
He has supervised 28+ PhD students to completion and currently leads multiple major grants including a £2.7m Royal Academy of Engineering Chair award. His laboratory develops open-source platforms (GIMIAS, MULTI-X) and has spun off three companies (GalgoMedical, adSilico).
As Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, he oversees interdisciplinary teams working on health technology innovation. He founded the InSilicoUK Innovation Network to advance regulatory science for in silico methods.
