Seminar of Physics of the Living State

(The Applied Physics Scientific Section)

(*) Summary (In preparation)

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(**) Rafael Rodriguez Rojas, MSc, is a Junior Associate of the ICTP  in the program of Physics of the Living State for neurophysics for which he is completing his doctoral thesis. He is an Assistant Researcher in the Brain Images Processing Group at the International Centre for Neurological Restoration.

    He is also Associate Professor of Physics in the Polytechnic High Institute Jose A. Echeverria, Havana, Cuba. Among the distinctions he has received we should mention:  the Annual Prize of National Academy of Sciences, Cuba (2008), the Annual Prize of Health, Cuba (2001 and 2007), the Biannual Prize of Cuban Society on Biomedical Engineering (2003 and 2005) and, especially, the National Prize for Young Scientists, Cuba (2000).


    His fields of expertise are medical-image processing and analysis, brain computational models, and computer-aided diagnosis and surgery. He is the author of over 30 publications and conference presentations.