Ramella Roman, Jessica Graduate Faculty

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  • Dr. Jessica C. Ramella-Roman received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1993. She earned both M.S. and PH.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon in 2004.
    Dr. Ramella-Roman received an appointment as a post-doctoral fellow at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University from 2004 to 2005. She then became an assistant professor at The Catholic University of America in 2005 and was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 2010, serving until 2013. During this time, she also worked as a senior research scientist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC, and an adjunct professor at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
    Since 2013, she has served at Florida International University as an associate professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the College of Engineering and Computing. She is also an associate professor on the research scientist track in the Department of Ophthalmology of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM).
    Dr. Ramella-Roman’s biomedical engineering research is focused on bio-photonics: a combination of biology and photonics that involves the generation, manipulation, and detection of light to advance scientific discovery and clinical application. Her research focuses on developing imaging and point-of-care devices based on spectroscopy and polarization, including multimodal nonlinear microscopy applications.
    Dr. Ramella-Roman has published 84 peer-reviewed articles, and her work has been cited more than 5100 times, her H index is 34, and her i10 index is 75 (Google Scholar). She has recently edited a book on “Polarized Light in Biomedical Imaging and Sensing” published by Springer.
    Over the years, she has led NSF, NIH, and several foundation projects accruing more than 12M in funding since 2004. She is the site PI of the NSF ERC PATHS-UP. The Vision of PATHS-UP is to inform and enhance the underserved communities' health by developing novel wearable and point-of-care systems furthermore.
    She was the Chair of the Engineering Faculty Council at Florida International University from 2020 to 2021 and the Graduate program director from 2014 to 2015. She is a Fellow of SPIE, Optica/OSA, and AIMBE. She has been serving as the SPIE BIOS Program Track Chair since 2019; this conference encompasses 20 sub-tracks in different optics disciplines. She was also elected as the general chair of the OPTICA-BIOMED conference for 2024. SPIE BIOS and OPTICA-BIOMED are some of the most important and large conferences in her field.

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  • Biophotonics
    Women Health
    Point of Care and Wearable Devices

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  • Jessica Ramella Roman

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