Luca Faes

Dr. Faes is Senior Researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the BIOtech Center of the University of Trento, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Electronic Engineering at the University of Trento (2003). He has been research fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento (2004-2008) and visiting scientist at the State University of New York (2007), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2010), University of Gent (Belgium, 2013), University of Minas Gerais (Brazil, 2015), and Boston University (2016). He is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS), the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO) and served on the Program Committee of several conferences on medical signal processing. He is Associate Editor of the journal Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, and of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS, where he regularly organizes symposia and invited sessions. He was organizer and Program Chair of the 8th ESGCO conference (Trento, Italy, 2014). He works in the fields of statistical physics, computational physiology and neuroscience with focus on developing methods for multivariate time series analysis in the time, frequency and information domains, with applications to cardiovascular neuroscience, brain connectivity and brain-heart interactions. His recent research covers the information-theoretic analysis of physiological networks aimed at the characterization of brain, cardiac and multi-organ physiological mechanisms in physiological states and pathological conditions.