Julien Bec, Ph.D.

Julien Bec Portrait

Position Title
Engineering and Operations Director

  • Marcu Laboratory
GBSF
Bio

After an early career as an R&D engineer in the automotive industry (active chassis systems, emissions control), Julien Bec joined the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering department working on the design, fabrication, and evaluation of biomedical imaging systems in the nuclear and optical imaging fields. His current activity is focused on the development and clinical validation of fluorescence lifetime instrumentation for cardiovascular and oncology applications. As such, he is supervising hardware and software developments, clinical study design, development of data analysis methods, and compliance activities

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
  • M.E. Automotive Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • M.E. Mechanics and Controls, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Medical device development
  • Optical instrumentation
  • Clinical translation
  • Intravascular imaging
  • Surgical guidance
  • Regulatory compliance