Almir Badnjevic MS, PhD

Almir Badnjevic received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2015. From 2008. he is gaining an experience in the Business and Academic areas, parallel. He is one of the founders of an idea to include Medical Devices with Measuring Functions into the Legal Metrology framework and establish traceability of medical measurement. Based on that idea from 2015. medical devices are part of the legal metrology framework in Bosnia and Herzegovina and many other world countries. This enabled him to establish one of Europe’s most equipped laboratories for the testing and inspection of Medical Devices, named Verlab (http://www.verlab.ba).

From results in that field in 2017. as one of the Editors published a book in Springer Nature titled: “Inspection of Medical Devices – for regulatory purposes”. In Academic Area, from 2015. working as a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at International Burch University (http://www.ibu.edu.ba). Together with his team, he established the first Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degree programs in Bioengineering in the country. He is also working as a Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo (http://www.ffsa.unsa.ba) in the field of Health Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, and Expert Systems and as a Laboratory Associate at the University of Warwick, UK.

In 2014. founded and became a President of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Medical and Biological Engineering Society (http://www.dmbiubih.org) which is the country representative in IFMBE and EAMBES. He is a Board member of IEEE TC on Cardiopulmonary Systems, a Board member of ESEM (EU organization for Educating Students in Engineering and Medicine), a Board member of IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, Member of the Coordination Team in IEEE Standards for Region 8, Treasurer and Councilor for Regulatory Affairs in EAMBES (European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science).

Almir Badnjevic is the author or co-author of more than 70 publications. His CV is included in Marquis Who’s Who in the World in 2016. He is IEEE Senior Member. Together with his team received Clinical Engineering the best manuscript award for 2018. Named “Person of the Year 2018” in Bosnia and Herzegovina by SNL Magazine. From 2019. he is a member of the Supervisory Board at Privredna Bank Sarajevo.