Igor Meglinski

Igor Meglinski is a Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biophotnics at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and holds the Professor of Opto-Electronics and Biophotonics at Oulu University (Oulu, Finland). He obtained his BSc/MSc in Laser Physics from the Saratov State University, and PhD degree in 1997, studying at the interface between Saratov State University (Russia) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA) under the supervision of Professor Britton Chance, Professor Arjun Yodh[1] and Professor Valery V. Tuchin [2]. After a few years of postdoctoral research in the School of Physics at the University of Exeter, he became a Lecturer and Director of Biomedical Optical Diagnostics Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Cranfield University in 2001, and a Head of Bio-Photonics & Bio-Medical Optical Diagnostics in the School of Health of Cranfield University in 2007. Being a part of Cranfield Business Incubator Centre, funded by East of England Development Agency (EEDA), he created a laboratory/hub to address the needs of industrial partners. The Biophotonics group headed by Professor Meglinski became one of the UK’s top five research groups in terms of percentage of its income earned from basic research and through the close collaboration with the blue chip industrial partners, including direct funding from Procter & Gamble, Philips, GE HealthCare, and other. In 2009 he has been invited to develop Biophotonics research in the University of Otago (New Zealand), becoming a Head of Bio-Photonics & Bio-Medical Imaging in the Department of Physics. Being a part of Dodd-Walls Centre of Research Excellence in Photonic and Quantum Technologies and the Centre for Translational Cancer Research [3] he has been awarded to lead the project "Biomedical imaging and cancer detection using light and ultrasound"[4] within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s 2012 Science Investment Round. In 2014 Prof. Meglinski back to Europe, heading the Opto-Electronic and Measurement Techniques Department at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) in the University of Oulu in Finland. Since 2019 he is Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Biophotonics in Aston University, working at the interface between School of Engineering & Applied Science and School of Life & Health Sciences. He is actively involved in various international activities and events organised by the IEEE Photonics Society - IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics Chapter [5],[6], SPIE [7], OPTICA [8],[9] and other [10],[11],[12]. He is board member of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Section [13] of The Royal Microscopical Society, and the member of editorial boards of the Optical Society's Biomedical Optics Express journal [14], Sustainable Materials and Technologies [15], Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering [16].