Dr. Juan Aguirre Bueno joins MEDIC

We are proud to welcome our new member Dr. Juan Aguirre Bueno. Recently, he has obtained the most prestigious research fellowship from Comunidad de Madrid (Atraccion Talento 2020) which has allowed him to return to Spain and to start his tenure track at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In MEDIC, he will lead a new research branch centered in Medical Sensors and their applications.

Bioscketch
Dr. Juan Aguirre Bueno studied physics and applied mathematics in Spain. After completing his PhD in biomedical imaging in Madrid, he worked as a researcher in labs in Barcelona, Crete (Greece), and the University of Pennsylvania, USA. In 2013, he received a Marie Curie grant to join the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich. He has been the group leader of the optoacoustic mesoscopy in IBMI from 2014 until 2021.

Research Focus
Dr. Aguirre research is focused on the conception, design and development of medical imaging and sensing technology meant to outperform established methods in terms of resolution, contrast, speed or quantification accuracy among other factors. These tools are in most cases intended to quantify biologically and medically relevant features that were not possible to be monitored before, in order to make real improvements in the clinical routine of major diseases, like cancer, cardiovascular, metabolic or dermatological diseases.