Dr. Nadja Bressan

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island

Lead of the Mechatronics Applied to Biomedicine Laboratory at the FSDE, UPEI where she develops solutions for Veterinary Medicine and Applications of Mechatronics in space

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Biography

Dr. Nadja Bressan received a BS in Industrial Automation from Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil, in 2005; MSc in Automation, Instrumentation and Control in 2007 and PhD (European Doctorate mention) in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. She developed the first Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system for total intravenous anesthesia using Target Controlled Infusion for Neuroanesthesia. She joined UPEI as an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island, in 2017. Bressan is the Lead of the Mechatronics Applied to Biomedicine Laboratory at the FSDE, UPEI where she develops solutions for Veterinary Medicine and Applications of Mechatronics in space.

Expertise

  • Mixed Reality
  • Veterinary Medicine Engineering
  • Sustainable Design Engineering
  • Mechatronic systems
  • Big Data to Knowledge
  • Target Controlled Infusion Schemes
  • Drug modelling
  • Software development
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition applications
  • Sustainable design

Education/Éducation

  • University of Porto
    Biomedical Engineering
    European Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering, 2011
  • University of Porto
    Automation, Instrumentation and Control
    Master in Automation, Instrumentation and Control, 2007
  • Universidade de Caxias do Sul
    Industrial Automation
    Bachelor of Science, 2004