About Us

The Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine Centre (GBT) belongs to the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and conducts activities in education, research, and development in the application of ICT in various biomedical fields, such as telemedicine for chronic patients and smart devices, personalized medicine, big data in health applications, medical imaging and surgical planning, neurorehabilitation engineering, bioinstrumentation, and decision support tools.

GBT-UPM was founded in 1986 and is currently made up of 20 researchers, including professors, PhD researchers, PhD candidates, and collaborating researchers, in addition to a large number of students working on their Bachelor’s or Master’s theses. These individuals come from fields such as biomedical engineering, telecommunications engineering, and computer science.

Currently, GBT-UPM maintains stable collaborations with both the private and public sectors in various R&D areas. GBT-UPM is a founding partner of the Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) at UPM and is a member of the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine (CIBERBBN).

Enrique J. Gómez Aguilera

Catedrático de Universidad

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

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Enrique J. Gómez Aguilera is Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UPM, Head of the Department of PT and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the GBT Research Center. Senior Researcher at the National Center for Research in Bioengineering, Biomaterial and Nanomedicine of the National Institute of Health and the CTB of the UPM.

He has developed an intense activity in the promotion and creation of educational programs and he is Director of the Master of Science at BME at UPM. He has established several lines of research in Biomedical Engineering at the UPM: Technologies for Diabetes Care, Medical Imaging, and Image-Guided Surgery, and BME in Neurorehabilitation and Brain Health.

Author of 175 journal articles, 22 book chapters and 402 publications in conference proceedings. Principal investigator in 27 Spanish research projects, 20 industry projects and 39 EU research projects, that have led to the achievement of 8,9 million of euros.

Supervisor of 19 doctoral theses and 10 postdoctoral researchers.

President of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (2020-) and Honorary Life Member (2018) of IFMBE (International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering). He has been president of EIT Health Spain (European Institute of Innovation and Technology in Health) (2019-2021). Founding member of EAMBES (European Alliance of Medical & Biological Engineering Society) and member of the board of directors (2005-2009). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the “Gadea Foundation for Science”.

2022 Research Award Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Profesores

María Elena Hernando Pérez

Catedrática de Universidad

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Full Professor in the field of Biomedical Engineering. Her research focuses on technologies for chronic patients and the elderly, providing technological solutions for both patients and healthcare professionals. The research work includes the integration of monitoring sensors into telemedicine systems to enable automatic data processing, either to predict risk events or to provide decision support through artificial intelligence tools.

She has been awarded five six-year research evaluation periods ("sexenios") and one six-year technology transfer evaluation. She is the author of more than 50 articles published in indexed journals (JCR, PubMed, Scimago), and has contributed to more than 200 publications in national and international conferences.

She has served as Principal Investigator for 16 publicly funded projects in competitive calls (12 national projects, 3 European Union projects, and 1 from the Community of Madrid), and as a collaborator in 26 additional research projects (15 national and 11 from the EU).

In her management roles, it is worth highlighting her position as Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree from its inception (2011-2018); Elected Member of the ETSIT School Board representing Associate Professors (2012-present); Secretary of the Biomedical Engineering PhD program (2009-2013); and Department Secretary (2004-2006).

She has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2012, a member of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB), and a member of the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED).

She is a member of the National Committee for CEN-TC251, AEN/CTN 139 "Information and Communication Technologies for Health," a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Spanish Society of Health Informatics (SEIS), and a member of the Evaluation Committee for the Engineering and Architecture Branch 1 of the VERIFICA-MONITOR Program of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA).