Arūnas Lukoševičius




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Present position
Professor, Doctor Habilitus, Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute, of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Member of Lithuanian Council for Evaluation of the Quality of Study and Research, Chairman of KTU Quality Assurance Committee, Professor of Telecommunication and Electronics Faculty of KTU,
Education: 1964 - 1969 Diploma Engineer in Electronics with an award, (KPI, former name of Kaunas University of Technology). Faculty of Radioelectronics.
1976 Doctor in Electronics from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute KPI.
1996 Doctor Habilitus in Electronics from the KTU.

Experience
1996-2000 Vice-Rector for Research of Kaunas University of Technology.
2000 to present Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute of KTU
1995-2000 Head of Laboratory of Ultrasonic Biomedical Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology.
1997 to present Professor at the department of Telecommunications and Electronics
1984 - 1997 Associated Professor of Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (late of Kaunas University of Technology).
1981 - 1984 lecturer, Kaunas Polytechnic Institute.
1980 - 1981 visiting research associate in Prague Charles University.
1976 - 1980 Senior research associate, Laboratory of Ultrasonics

Awards
EUREKA prize and medal of exhibition in Moscow for innovations (1977).
Winner of an award of Lithuanian Council of Ministers (1987) for implementation of R&D achievements in Lithuania.
International exhibitions in Vilnius (ULTRAGARSAS-87) and in Leipzig (EUROMED - 94).
Lithuanian National Science Award (2000)

Membership
Member of Lithuanian Board of Accreditation, Member of Lithuanian Council for Evaluation of the Quality of Study and Research, Member of the Editorial Committee of referred journals "Ultragarsas" (Ultrasonics), "Electronics and Electrical Engineering"
Member of conference scientific committees, e.g. International Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering.
A full member of International Society of Eye Research (ISER), International Society for Ophthalmic Ultrasound (SIDUO).
President of Lithuanian Biomedical Engineering Society

Participation in international conferences, seminars, projects
Scientific visits and participation in international conferences in Paris, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Munchen, Lund, Chicago, Warsaw, Prague, Lubeck, Kiel, Dusseldorf, Milan, Leipzig, Stockholm, Brussels, Helsinki.
Participation in TEMPUS JEP- 4949-95 and TEMPUS JEP-12402-97 projects.
Laboratory of Ultrasonic Biomedical Engineering is included in European Network for Excellence on Multifunctional Microsystems (NEXUSEAST).
Contact partner of ongoing Framework V project, submitted for Framework V project "Telemedicare" IST-1999-10754. Contact partner of ongoing project LITMED, supported by Swedish IT fund.

Teaching
Regularly scientific supervisor for master thesis, Supervisor of three doctoral students currently working on theses, academic courses: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Acoustics, Electronic Medical Equipment, Ultrasonic Diagnostics.

Research areas
Electronics, Biomedical engineering, Management of research in universities, theory, simulation and high technologies of wideband medical ultrasonic transducers, theory and algorithms of digital processing of diagnostic signals and scanned images, use of health-care telematics for diagnostics and expertise, systems for precise biometry , diagnostics and screening in ophthalmology, education and continuing education on biomedical engineering, organisation of technical support of health care.

 

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