Laura Roa

Laura María Roa Romero is a Spanish biomedical engineer, and a University Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Seville,^[1] which she founded in 1986. She has a doctorate from the University of Seville, earned in 1980.^[2]

Recognition

Roa was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, "for contributions to new resuscitation therapies for burn patients that are based on mathematical modeling, simulation, and control techniques".^[3] She is also a fellow of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Sevilla, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.^[1][2]

She was president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (Spanish Biomedical Engineering Society) from 2004 to 2012.^[4]