Saturday, 9th November 2024
Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics and Intervention Society

The International Society of Minimally Invasive Diagnostics and Therapy

Irving Bigio

Council Member of HNODIS (Jul 14 - Jul 16)

Council Member of HNODS (Sep 08-Sep 13)

Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Boston, United States

Current Research Interests

Irving J. Bigio received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1974. From then until 2000 he was a scientific staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), including service as Leader of the Laser Science and Applications Program (1988-1994). He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and a Guest Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, England. Dr. Bigio holds a number of patents for biomedical optics instrumentation, and has received three R&D-100 Awards for the development of biomedical optical devices. Since February 2001 he has been at Boston University, where he is Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, and Medicine. Dr. Bigio serves on several government advisory panels and on external advisory boards for companies and academic institutions. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a member of the American Physical Society and the SPIE. In addition to other research projects in biomedical optics, Dr. Bigio recently led a multi-institutional program under the NIH/NCI Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging, comprising several medical research centers in the US and Europe. Dr. Bigio is a Guest Professor (Honorary) of the University College London, Department of Surgery.

Medical applications of optics, lasers and spectroscopy
Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics
Biomolecular dynamics
Applied spectroscopy, especially to biomedical problems
Nonlinear optics, quantum electronics and laser physics