The Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the biomedical field to discuss their research in an international forum. More precisely, the Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to:

• Present their own ongoing PhD research work in a relaxed and supportive environment;

• Receive feedback and suggestions from peers and experienced faculty members;

• Gain an overview of the breadth and depth of biomedical engineering systems and technologies;

• Obtain insight into directions for biomedical engineering research taken by other doctoral candidates;

• Discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other issues;

• Network with peers and future colleagues

Thus, the symposium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at biomedical engineering, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this interdisciplinary area, and will expose these promising young researchers to the larger global community.

	Pedro Gómez Vilda Independent Researcher Spain e-mail
Brief Bio Pedro Gómez Vilda received the M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1983. He was Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid since 1988 through 2022. Currently he keeps collaboration with the Neuromorphic Speech Processing Laboratory at the Center for Biomedical Technology as Independent Researcher. His current research interests are biomedical signal processing, neurological disease detection and monitoring from speech and voice, cognitive speech processing, and speaker biometry.

	Daniel Palacios-Alonso Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain e-mail

	Valentina Vassilenko Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal e-mail
Brief Bio Valentina Vassilenko after her study and Master's degree in Physics at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Kiev start her academic career in 1986 at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University NOVA of Lisbon (FCT-UNL) where held PhD degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics. Since 2000 until present she is an Assistant Professor at FCT UNL. The R&D activity Valentina develop, in the beginning, in the Center of Molecular Physics of Lisbon Universities and, later on, in CEFITEC – Center of Physics and Technological Research at FCT-UNL. Since 2005 she starts to work in the field of Biomedical Engineering. Among the actual research interests, stand out the development of devices, sensors and non-invasive methods for application in medicine and health related problems. Since 2010 Valentina start to work with the Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) - an innovative and growing international scientific interest analytical technique. She is co-author of 5 books, 3 scientific publications in book chapters, 13 articles published in international journals with peer review and more than 85 communications in conferences and other international scientific meetings. Valentina is involved in several international cooperation and is a member of Program Committee of several International conferences. In 2013 she was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National Technical University of Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

ADVISORY BOARD

The Doctoral Consortium advisory board will comment each presentation and at the end of the consortium there will be a general discussion, including a reflection about current and future research topics in the area.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM REQUIREMENTS AND RULES

The Doctoral Consortium is based on the following requirements and rules:

• It is open only to Doctoral Students who have started their research;
• Each paper must have a single author, i.e. a PhD student. Other contributors, including supervisors, could be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section of the paper.
• Each student with an accepted paper at the Doctoral Consortium must register and attend BIOSTEC: a special student fee applies;
• Each paper must be presented by the student
• Submissions will be judged mainly on relevance, originality, technical quality and clarity;
• Paper length: 8,000 to 50,000 characters (excluding white spaces);
• Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex including the following information:
• research problem;
• outline of objectives;
• state of the art;
• methodology and
• expected outcome;
• stage of the research.

Registered Doctoral Consortium papers will not be included in the book of proceedings as archival publications or in the Digital Library and therefore will remain free of copyright.

HOW TO APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please submit your paper through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and follow the instructions and templates (MSWord and LaTex ) that can be found under Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

ACCEPTED STUDENTS SHOULD PREPARE:

1. An introduction of themselves and their Ph.D. project for the introductory session. 1 slide only. Duration: 60 sec max.
2. A 10 minute presentation of their Ph.D. project to be used for introducing discussion about their project and its main issues during the small group sessions.
3. Students are also invited to prepare a poster about their Ph.D. for the main conference poster session.

BEST PhD PROJECT AWARD

A "Best PhD Project Award" will be conferred to the student of a paper presented at the conference doctoral consortium, selected by the Doctoral Chair based on the combination of paper reviewing marks and the feedback of the Advisory Board. The award will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. The author of an awarded paper will be entitled to:

• A signed and stamped official award certificate;
• The announcement of their achievement on a special conference webpage;
• A one year free membership of INSTICC (http://www.insticc.org), warranting full access to the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. If already an INSTICC member, then this offer adds one year to her/his current membership.
• A voucher for a free or reduced registration* in one event sponsored by INSTICC, valid during a 12 months period, including all conference materials (without the printed proceedings). This voucher is only available if the presenter attends the closing session and receives the award.

* Speakers are entitled to a 50% discount over the basic registration fee; non-speakers are entitled to a free registration.