Milan T y š l e r, PhD - Curriculum Vitae
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: (+421-2) 5910 4550, fax: (+421-2) 5477 5943
Email: umertysl@savba.sk
Web: http://www.um.sav.sk
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
- Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on September 2, 1951,
- Nationality: Slovak
- Married in 1980, to Mária Pavellová, three children: Miroslav (1981), Eva (1983), Iveta (1983)
- Languages: English, German, Russian, Slovak, Czech
EDUCATION:
1969-1974 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, specialization computers and automation - Ing. (MS in electrical engineering)
1974 - 1978 Institute of Measurement Theory, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, study stay
1978 - 1982 Institute of Measurement Theory, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, postgraduate study Measurement science - CSc. (Ph.D. degree)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Main:
1981- Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, managing researcher
1985-1989, 1991- Head of Department of Biomeasurements
1994-1998, 2002- Deputy director
1993-1998, 2002-2005 Director of the Scientific Board
Other :
1988-1989 Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, senior research worker (partial appointment)
1989-1993 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, visiting professor
1989-1996 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, visiting professor
1991-2002 ProMed, Ltd., director
2001 SKQS (DQS Slowakei), external expert
1982 Department of BME, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA (6 months)
1986 Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Catholic University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (1 month)
1988 Department of Biophysics, University Karlsruhe, Germany (1 month)
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION:
Biomedical measurements and instrumentation
· Development of intelligent systems for biosignal measurement, processing and evaluation
· Standardization of medical devices
· Methods for biosignal measurement imaging and evaluation and their application in biology and medicine
Modelling and identification of biological processes, oriented to cardiovascular system:
· Modelling of normal and pathological heart excitation using finite element methods, computer simulations of cardiac electric field
· Non-invasive inverse methods in electrocardiology and their use for identification of arrhythmogenic foci or local ischemia of the myocardium
1988 - 1989 Chiramap, multichannel ECG measurement system for Chirana company, Stará Turá
1989 - 1991 ELMAKART, body surface mapping project for IPPI RAN Moscow
1994 - 1996 ABLAMAP, mapping device for L. Boltzmann Institut für Arrhytmienforschung, Wien
1994 - 1997 grant VEGA 2/1216/94 "Methods for multichannel measurement and identification of sources of bioelectric fields"
1995 - 1997 JUMP - Joint Unified Mapping Project with CRIP Research Institute for Material Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1995 - 1997 grant of Slovak Grant Agency SGA 95/5305/469 "Measuring devices and methods for clinical electrocardiology, metrological support of medical devices"
1996 - 1998 project "Non-invasive measurement and information analysis of bioelectric signals" with IPPI RAN, Moscow
1997 grant VEGA and SAS 2/1216/97 “Methods for muktichannel measurement and identification of sources of bioelectric fields.”
1997 - 1998 grant "Oberflächen - EKG - Mapping in der klinischen Physiologie des Herzens" with L. Boltzmann Institut für Arhytmienforschung, Wien in the frame of "Österreich-Slowakei" cooperation
1998 - 2000 grant VEGA 2/5089/98 "Methods of measurement and non-invasive localization of arrhythmia sources in the heart"
2001 - 2003 grant VEGA 2/1135/21 "Multichannel measurement and analysis of low-level bioelectric signals"
2002 – 2003 grant of Ministry of education SR and SAS for cooperation with the industry: “Modular measuring devices for biophysical examinations working in a local network.”
2002 - 2005 grant of Science and Technology Assistance Agency APVT 51-017802 "New methods and devices for pulmonary, hepatic and gastro-intestinal diagnostics"
2004 - 2006 grant VEGA 2/4089/24 "Assessment of heart repolarization changes by multilead ECG easurements"
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES
1988 - 1989 Faculty of Medicine, Comenius Univerzity Bratislava, (seminars)
1989 - 1993 Faculty of Elektrical Engineering, Slovak Technical University Bratislava (seminars)
1989 - 1996 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak Technical University Bratislava (seminars Measurements in Biology and Medicine)
1997-2001, 2002 External cooperation (seminars of Biomedical Engineering) , Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Košice
1995 - 1999 member of the state examen commission, specialization Automation, Faculty of Elektrical Engineering, Slovak Technical University Bratislava
1996 member of the commission for PhD defences in Measurement technology, Faculty of Elektrical Engineering, Slovak Technical University Bratislava and Slovak Academy of Sciences
1997 - member of the common commission for PhD study in Bionics and Biomechanics
- adviser of PhD students (3, 1 finished),
- reviewer of PhD theses (5), member of PhD defence commissions (5)
- afdviser for study stays, diploma projects (9) and semestral projects (62,
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES:
1983 10th International Congress on Electrocardiology, Bratislava, Slovakia, Organizing Committee member
1986 - 1990 Biosignal'86, '88, '90 conferences, Program Committee member
1990, 1993 Cardiac Electrical Field, international conferences, Smolenice, Slovakia, Program Committee member
1995 IMEKO TC-13 Conference Model Based Biomeasurements, Stara Lesna, Slovakia, Organizing and Program Committee Chairman
1997 XXIVth International Congress on Electrocardiology, Bratislava, Slovakia, Secretary General
1997 World Congress of Biomedical Engineering 1997, Nice, France, International Liaison Committee
1998 8th IMEKO Conference on Measurement in Clinical Medicine, 1998, Dubrovnik, Croatia, International Committee member
1999, 2002 European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference 1999 and 2002, Vienna, International Scientific Advisory Board member
1999 - 2005 International Conference Measurement 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, Program Committee chairman
2001 "MEDICON 2001", Pula, Croatia, Inernational Program Committee
2004 - 2005 European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference, Prague 2005, International Scientific Advisory Committee member
2005 „Trends in Biomedical Engineering“, Žilina 2005, program committee member
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
1994 - 1997 IFMBE Working Group for European Activities, member
1995 - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, member
1996 - International Society of Electrocardiology, elected to International Council on Electrocardiology (2000-)
1996 - Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering, Scientific secretary (1997- )
1997 - International Measurement Confederation IMEKO,
TC-13 Slovak technical committee "Measurement in medicine and biology", Chairman (1997- )
1998 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, member
1998 - Slovak Metrological Society, member
2004 - Slovak Society of Cardiology, member