Dr. Fernando S. Schlindwein - Senior Lecturer, PG Tutor

Fernando Soares Schlindwein, PhD - Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Tutor (Engineering) Contact Details

Email: f.s.schlindwein@leicester.ac.uk

Telephone extension: 5053

Telephone: (+44)(0116) 252 5053

Fax: (+44)(0116) 252 2619

Address: University of Leicester, Department of Engineering, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England, UK

Mini CV: Fernando Soares Schlindwein was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1956. He graduated as an Electronic Engineer in 1979 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with an extension course in Nuclear Engineering. After a short time in industry (Aços Finos Piratini, a steel mill) he obtained an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Coordination of Post-Graduation Programmes in Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil, in 1982, a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Department of Surgery of the University of Leicester, England, in 1990, and a D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He was a lecturer associated with the UFRJ from August 1980 until August 1992, when he joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester as a lecturer in Bioengineering. He has also been a lecturer of the Department of Electronics of the Brazilian Navy Academy for Officers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from March 1981 to August 1982. Dr. Schlindwein has taught more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate modules, has presented 97 papers in scientific meetings, and has 57 papers published in refereed journals. He has successfully supervised 26 students at Masters and PhD level and is currently supervising 5 PG research students and 4 MSc students. His current research interests are real-time digital signal processing of biological signals, with more intense research activities in i) heart-rate variability and assessment of neonatal stress, ii) Doppler ultrasound signals, iii) automatic arrhythmia monitoring using the ECG, and iv) microprocessor-, microcomputer- and Digital Signal Processor-based systems. Most of his teaching experience is on Digital Signal Processing (including digital signal processors) and microprocessor / microcomputer (including design and programming) and in Bioengineering. In 1994 he was an invited member of the Scientific Program Committee for the World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, responsible for organising the session on Signal Processing. In 1997/98 he held a Visiting Scientist post at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, working on heart rate variability and asphyxia with Prof. Nitish V. Thakor. He has Industrial Application experience in Biomedical Engineering (consultancy on development of arrhythmia monitors for coronary care units). Dr Schlindwein is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), and the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (SBEB). He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS) and he also serves on the International Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of Biomedical Engineering. He has dual nationality: British and Brazilian.

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Last updated: 22 February 2006 15:53

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