Prof. Ioannis Valais

Ioannis Valais is a professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of West Attica, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Medical Instruments Technology, School of Applied Technology, TEI of Athens (1991) and holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Bio-Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the University of Aberdeen, U.K., obtained in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI of Athens, where he taught laboratory courses on the service and readiness of medical equipment and construction. From 2001 to 2009, he worked as a full-time lecturer in the Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI of Athens, teaching laboratory courses Constructions I and II and Readiness and Maintenance of Medical Equipment.  From 2009 to 2013, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI of Athens. His research interests cover the fields of the evaluation of phosphorus and single crystals for use in medical imaging; electronic and mechanical engineering for the improvement of medical equipment; quality assurance for nuclear medicine imaging systems; and design protocols and maintenance of quantitative and qualitative checks in medical equipment.