Jean-michel Maarek PhD

Jean-Michel I. Maarek received his engineering degree (Diplome d'Ingenieur Civil des Mines) in Chemical Engineering in 1980 from the Ecole des Mines in Nancy, France, his Doctorat Inganieur in Biomedical Engineering in 1984 from the Universite Paris Val-de-Marne in Creteil, France, and his M.S. degree in Education in 1997 from the University of Southern California. Before coming to North America, he worked at Creteil Medical School on the optical properties of biological tissues and the development of a functional imaging technique using near-infrared laser sources. Dr. Maarek came to USC in 1984 as a Research Associate. He was appointed Research Assistant Professor in 1987 and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 1993.