Alejandro Frangi

Professor Alejandro (Alex) Frangi is an Argentinian engineer and scientist and a pioneered in computational medicine. He specialises in the engineering of machine learning for medical image analysis and modelling. He has published over 850 peer-reviewed articles in his field.

Education
He moved to Barcelona in 1991, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia in 1996. Frangi obtained grants from both Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and CIRIT to pursue his PhD.

Career
Early in his career, Frangi was a visiting researcher at Imperial College, London. He also worked at Philips Medical Systems BV, The Netherlands. He currently serves as Bicentennial Turing Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Manchester. Frangi also serves as chair in Emerging Technologies for The Royal Academy of Engineering. He also has visiting positions at KU Leuven, Shenzhen University and Beijing Institute of Technology.

Research
Frangi's most notable research and development was in the field of silico clinical trials. These clinical trials can be completed digitally and can also model and predict outcomes in the form of a computerised simulation. In April 2023, Frangi's research project INSILICO received a grant from the European Research Council. The research involves simulating clinical trials using "digital twins." It is hoped that technology breakthroughs in this field could reduce both the time and cost of some trials.