Prof. Robert D. Iskander

Prof. D. Robert Iskander works in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Technology. He was awarded his PhD in 1997 (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and his habilitation in 2010 (Silesian University of Technology). In February 2021, he was awarded the title of Professor of Engineering and Technical Sciences. His professional career began at the Łódź University of Technology, where he studied and started his academic career as a research assistant, followed by a stay of almost 20 years in Australia (at Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University), to the Wrocław University of Technology, where he began working in 2010. His research focuses primarily on signal and image processing methods and their applications in ophthalmology, but he also works on visual optics, optometric and ophthalmic instrumentation, applied statistics, applied mathematics, detection and estimation, and the bootstrap method.

Professor Iskander is the co-author of over 300 international scientific papers, including more than 150 in peer-reviewed international journals. He is also the co-author of 13 international patents, mainly relating to the design of contact lenses. To date, he has supervised 24 PhD students to completion, and currently supervises a further five PhD candidates. He currently serves as Director of the HealthTech Synergy Hub and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Committee on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences