Ernesto Iadanza, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Italy. He is currently a member of the IFMBE Administrative Council, chair of the Council of Societies of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), immediate past chair of its Health Technology Assessment Division Board (IFMBE/HTAD), and past chair of its Clinical Engineering Division Board (IFMBE/CED). Member of the Union Journal Committee of the International Union for Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IUPESM). He is also IEEE (and IEEE-EMBS) Senior Member and received the IBM Faculty Award in 2013, the IFMBE/CED Teamwork Award in 2019, the IFMBE/CED Best Journal Article Award 2022 and the IFMBE/CED Best Conference Paper Award 2022. Section Editor of "Technology and Health Care", Associate Editor of "PLOS One", "Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology", “Health & Technology”, and “Future Internet” and member of the scientific committee of many international conferences in bioengineering.

Dr. Iadanza is the organiser of postgraduate master courses in Clinical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering and HTA at the University of Florence since 2007. Supervisor in 200+ graduation theses. Author of 240+ publications on international books, scientific journals, volumes and conference proceedings.