Javier Pascau González-Garzón
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Professor Javier Pascau González-Garzón
Javier Pascau is Full Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with four six-year research periods recognized, and a researcher at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1999), a Master's in Biomedical Technology and Instrumentation from UNED (2005), and a Ph.D. from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2006).
Professor Pascau leads the Biomedical Applications of Engineering research group at the Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute (ABI-IISGM) and the BSEL-IGT group (https://igt.uc3m.es). His research focuses on clinical intervention guidance through the combination of tracking systems and imaging studies, as well as applying artificial intelligence methods to medical image analysis and toxicity prediction in radiotherapy. He has published more than 90 papers in indexed journals, is a co-inventor on two patents, and has contributed to numerous engineering and medical conferences. As principal investigator, he has led projects funded by national competitive calls and European consortiums, including EraPerMed, IRSES, and EraNet. He collaborates with various international groups, such as SPL at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (USA), PerkLab at Queen’s University (Canada) on image-guided therapies, and the University of Rennes I and other centers in France and Italy on radiotherapy toxicity prediction.
He teaches in English at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, primarily in the Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering (Medical Image Processing and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging) and the Master’s in Machine Learning for Health (Imaging and Surgical Navigation and Artificial Intelligence in Radiology and Microscopy), as well as in the Master’s in Clinical Engineering (Hospital Information Systems). He served as the director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from 2016 to 2021.
His research activities include supervising seven doctoral theses defended between 2017 and 2023, as well as three ongoing ones. He has published 131 journal articles and conference proceedings, 75% of which are in the first quartile (SCOPUS), with over 4000 total citations and an average of 185 citations per year from 2019 to 2023, achieving an H-index of 37 (Google Scholar).