Jean-Marie Aerts is currently Heading the Measure, Model and Manage Bioresponses (M3-BIORES) Group of the Division Animal and Human Health Engineering (A2H), Department of Biosystems (BIOSYST), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. He received the Master of Science and the Ph.D. degrees in bioengineering from the KU Leuven (former Catholic University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium. He is a Full Professor and Chair of Leuven Health Technology Centre (L-HTC). His research is focusing on data-based mechanistic modeling of biological systems as a basis for developing human health engineering technology. He is a member of IEEE and has been a Visiting Researcher with the Engineering Department of Lancaster University and at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Oxford. Contact him at jean-marie.aerts@kuleuven.be.