JOACHIM H. NAGEL
Short CV
Prof. Nagel is Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of
Stuttgart since 1996. He received his MS degree in Physics & Electronics at the University of Saarbruecken
in 1973, and his D.Sc. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1979. Following appointments
in industry and as a faculty member at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Prof. Nagel joined the University of Miami, Florida, USA, in 1986, where he served
as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (1986-96), Radiology (1990-96), and Clinical Psychophysiology
(1988-1996). He also served as the Director of the Medical Imaging & Instrumentation Lab (1986-1996),
and Director of Biomedical Engineering at the Behavioral Medicine Research Center (1986-1996).
Prof. Nagel served as the President of the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in
Medicine (2006-2009) and the President of the International Federation for Medical and Biological
Engineering (2003-2006). He is a co-founder of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological
Engineering and Sciences (EAMBES) and served as the founding Chairman of its Division of Academic
Programs and Research Institutes. Joachim Nagel is a member of the Scientific Council of the International
Centre for Bio-Cybernetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a Founding Fellow of the Biomedical
Engineering Society and EAMBES, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the International Academy for
Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering as
well as an Academician Member of the UNESCO/UATI World Academy of Biomedical Technologies. He is
an honorary life member of the IFMBE and an honorary member of the Czech Society for Biomedical
Engineering and Medical Informatics of the Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně. Prof. Nagel is the
leader of the European project BIOMEDEA – Biomedical Engineering Preparing for the European Higher
Education Area, from 2004 to 2012 he served as the leader of the IFMBE/IUPESM participation in the WHO
World Alliances on Patient Safety and the Global Health Workforce, the United Nations Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction, he lead UN/WHO workshops on the safety of health facilities in emergencies and,
as the IFMBE representative to the WHO General Assembly and Executive Committee, participated in the
formulation of WHO resolutions with regard to health technologies. He was co-chair (2006-2009) and chair
(2009-2012) of the IUPESM Health Technology and Training Task Force which is supporting developing
countries with regard to health and health care technologies and wrote WHO technical documents on
Indicators for Evaluating and Measuring the Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure and Technology
Management on Investments, Service Delivery and Quality of Care. In cooperation with the International
Labour Organization (ILO) he established global recognition of biomedical engineers as an integral part of
the health work force within the United Nations system (2009).
In 2012 Dr. Nagel received the Award of Merit from the International Union for Physical and Engineering
Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) -- the highest recognition awarded in this profession.
Joachim Nagel is the founding editor of the IUPESM/Springer journal Health and Technology (2010) and
the series editor of the IFMBE/Springer Book Series on Biomedical Engineering (since 2006). He was a
series editor for the IFMBE Proceedings (2001-2009) and an editor of the IOPP Book Series in Medical
Physics and Biomedical Engineering (2001-05), he served as an editor for the BMES journal Annals of
Biomedical Engineering (1989-94), the IOPP journal Physiological Measurement (1994-98), and he was a
member of numerous Editorial and Review Boards. He served as a consultant to NIH, NHLBI, the Scientists'
Institute for Public Information, the American Cancer Society - ACS/NASA Subcommittee, the World
Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations, and numerous medical equipment companies. He has been
funded by NIH and the DFG, and he has taken part in European Union funded projects.
His main research interests are in the fields of cardiovascular monitoring, instrumentation and physiology,
medical image acquisition and image processing, physiological signals, Bio-MEMS, neurosciences,
biological effects as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound, and patient safety. Some of Dr. Nagel’s
earliest major achievements were the invention of Macro-Programming (1974), the introduction of
microprocessors into medical equipment (1975), and MR imaging of bioelectric currents (1980).
Prof. Nagel has published more than 280 scientific papers, books, book chapters, monographs, editorials,
patents and conference papers.