Marc Nyssen (VLIR-UOS)
Marc Nyssen Studied Electrical Engineering at the Free University Brussels, graduating in Electronics in 1975.In 1978, he obtained an Engineering degree in "Computer Science". In 1983, he obtained a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering, after defending a thesis called: "New Architectures for Optoelectronic Signal Processing". From 1976 to 1977 research assistant in the Electronics Dept. at the V.U.B. From 1978 to 1983 he was appointed in the Medical Informatics Dept., responsible for the research network and server computing infrastructure of the new medical campus of the Brussels Free University, in Jette. First as a research assistant, from 1983 then as Associate Professor, currently as Professor. He is co-founder of the "Belgian Unix systems Users Group" associated with the EurOpen European federation of national user groups. The BUUG introduced and ran the EUnet network, Belgium´s first Internet connection between 1986 and 1994. As National Secretary he represents Belgium in the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (IFMBE). Co-founder and Secretary General of the Belgian National Committee on Biomedical Engineering within the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts.
His interests lie in different aspects of the computerized production lines, mainly for the scientist, with emphasis on network communication aspects. Image processing related hardware and software systems were studied and realized under his guidance, as research projects or as thesis for students in Engineering or Bio-Engineering and Medical Research. Medical Internet applications are a second field of interest and expertise, this field is now known as 'E-health'. Several projects were accomplished regarding the introduction of electronic medical records and the exchange of medical data via the Internet, currently his main project consists of the introduction of electronic medical prescriptions in Belgium.