/Biomedical Engineering

The Biomedical Engineering department, established in 1971, is the oldest graduation course in BE in Brazil. It offers programs in the master and doctorate levels to students coming from the exact and health sciences domains. Touching on a wide range of areas, this program offers world class training with an aim to producing individuals that are capable of developing activities in different sectors, such as in the academy, in research, industries, service, and hospitals. They can also work in related areas, such as in sports, signals processing, scientific instrumentation, computing, systems projects and maintenance, and complex instrumentation.
Thanks to the use of methods of the exact, medical and biological sciences explored through interdisciplinary and multi-professional lenses, the Biomedical Engineering department contributes to the development of various areas and sectors, including the scientific, the economic, the industrial, and the social.
The department’s research lines concentrate in the following areas: Signals Processing and Medical Imagery; Movement Analysis and the Physiology of the Exercise; Pulmonary Engineering; Health Systems Engineering; Biomedical Instrumentation, Ultrasound in Medicine.

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Coordinator: Renan Moritz - Vice Coordinator: Antonio Maurício Ferreira Miranda de Sá
Graduation Faculty
Name | Curriculum |
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Alexandre Visintainer Pino pino@peb.ufrj.br |
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Antonio Mauricio Ferreira Leite Miranda de Sá amflms@peb.ufrj.br |
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Carlos Julio Tierra Criollo carjulio@ufrj.br |
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Diogo Antonio Tschoeke diogoat@peb.ufrj.br |
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Frederico Caetano Jandre de Assis Tavares jandre@peb.ufrj.br |
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João Carlos Machado jcm@peb.ufrj.br |
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Jurandir Nadal jn@peb.ufrj.br |
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Luciano Luporini Menegaldo lmeneg@peb.ufrj.br |
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Marcio Nogueira de Souza souza@peb.ufrj.br |
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Maurício Cagy mcagy@peb.ufrj.br |
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Renan Moritz Varnier Rodrigues de Almeida renan@peb.ufrj.br |
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Roberto Macoto Ichinose macoto@peb.ufrj.br |
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Rosimary Terezinha de Almeida rosal@ufrj.br |
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Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira wagner@peb.ufrj.br |
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Emeritus Professors
Name | Curriculum |
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Antonio Giannella Neto agn@peb.ufrj.br |
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Invited Professors
Name | Curriculum |
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Flavio Fonseca Nobre flavio@peb.ufrj.br |
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Liliam Fernandes de Oliveira liliam.oliva@gmail.com |
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429 master’s dissertations and 101 doctoral theses were defended until 2014.
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