Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester

Current

Chief Research Officer at Alma IT Systems

Past

Director of Surgical Technology Division at University of Bern
Senior Researcher (CR1) at INRIA
Senior Researcher at Toshiba Medical Systems Japan

Researcher at University of Oxford
Software analyst / programmer at EDEFSOFT
Research Assistant at Universitat Jaume I
System administrator (University placement) at Universitat Jaume I

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Education

University of Oxford
Universitat Jaume I

Connections

157 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester’s Summary

- R&D manager.
- Researcher on medical image analysis, computer assisted surgery and related surgical technologies.

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester’s Specialties:

Management of research teams, establishment of industrial, clinical and academic collaborations, research guidance, medical image analysis methods.

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester’s Experience

Chief Research Officer

Alma IT Systems

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Alma IT Systems, Barcelona (Spain)

Head of the Research Department.
Medical image analysis software. Management of research teams and research collaborations.
Director of Surgical Technology Division

University of Bern

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

August 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 8 months)

Maurice E. Müller Research Center (headed by Prof. Lutz-Peter Nolte), Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Director of Surgical Technology Division (January 2006 - March 2008):
- Manage and coordinate approx. 40 people in 4 research groups: medical image analysis, smart surgical instrumentation (mechatronics), orthopaedic navigation and navigation around the head (CMF and ENT).
- Identify and promote new research areas.
- Networking with industrial, clinical and academic partners.

Head of Medical Image Analysis Group (August 2004 - March 2008):
- Research on medical image processing and automated analysis.
- Computer-assisted surgery.
- Manage a group of approx. 10 people including post-docs and PhD students.
Senior Researcher (CR1)

INRIA

(Government Agency; Research industry)

December 2001 — July 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Epidaure Research Group (headed by Prof. Nicholas Ayache), INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France:
- Research on medical image analysis (segmentation, registration, etc.).
- Supervision of PhD students.
Senior Researcher

Toshiba Medical Systems Japan

(Medical Devices industry)

March 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Toshiba Medical Systems, Otawara, Japan:
- Research on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology.
- Clinical collaborations.
Researcher

University of Oxford

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

October 1996 — February 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Researcher at Medical Vision Lab, Robotics Research Group (Oct. 1996 - Feb. 2000):
- Research on medical image analysis, mainly for neurological applications (schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis).

Research Assistant at Dept. of Clinical Neurology (Oct. 1996 – Jan. 2000):
- Image processing software for clinical research on schizophrenia.

System administrator at Green College, Oxford (Jan. 1998 – Dec. 1999):
- Administration of the computer network.
Software analyst / programmer

EDEFSOFT

(Computer Software industry)

November 1993 — October 1996 (3 years)

EDEFSOFT, S.A. (Castellon, Spain):
- Development of Windows-based commercial software for business applications.
Research Assistant

Universitat Jaume I

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

July 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain.

Research Assistant at Computer Graphics Lab:
- Visual realism, simulation of natural scenes via parametric surfaces and ilumination / shading algorithms.
System administrator (University placement)

Universitat Jaume I

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

October 1994 — January 1995 (4 months)

- UNIX system administration.

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester’s Education

University of Oxford

DPhil , Engineering (Medical Image Analysis) , 1996 — 2000

- PhD thesis on computer-assisted medical image analysis for neurological studies related to schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis.
- Supervisors: Prof. Sir Michael Brady and Prof. Andrew Zisserman from the Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford. Clinical guidance by Prof. Timothy Crow from the Clinical Neurology Dept.
Universitat Jaume I

Computer Engineering , Computer Science , 1991 — 1996