he researcher from the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, AC3E, and academic at the University of Concepción, Dr. Pamela Guevara, was named Distinguished Lecturer 2025 by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the world’s largest international society of engineers.

This is a recognition of her outstanding career and technical contributions in the field of biomedical engineering, allowing her to promote this knowledge and the results of her research to other members of the society, the international community, and industry, through talks that she will have to carry out between March 2025 and December 2026. The presentations will address part of Dr. Guevara’s research related to the study of brain connectivity based on diffusion magnetic resonance imaging.

“I am very honored by this recognition of my career and research that we do with my group. It makes me very happy and I think it is a great opportunity to meet other biomedical engineering groups around the world and share what we do, as well as see possibilities for collaboration with them,” said the researcher.

The planned talks target groups that are not so familiar with diffusion magnetic resonance techniques and their applications, as well as groups with more experience in this technique, to whom more specific topics will be exposed, such as brain fiber segmentation algorithms, and other methods that analyze brain connectivity from images. Another hot topic that the researcher will address is the study of superficial white matter where short association fibers are found, which have been little studied given their smaller size and greater variability compared to long fibers, but which have an important role in brain functionality.

“It is important to be able to share with other colleagues the different analyses that can be done today and clarify their practical doubts about the use of new algorithms that are now being used in the literature,” added Dr. Guevara.

This distinction is, without a doubt, an important recognition of the work done over years in biomedical engineering and whose results will allow other scientists and engineers in the world to be at the forefront of trends and developments in this matter.