Paolo Gargiulo is a full Professor at - Reykjavik University. He studied at TU Wien and finished his PhD in 2009. Paolo interests and expertise are mostly in: Medical Image processing, Neuroengineering, 3-D printing and Medical technologies. He developed a national scale 3D-Printing service to support surgical planning with a significant impact on the Icelandic health care system and currently developing VR/AR based educational platform for education and training.

Paolo Gargiulo is the founder and the director of the Institute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering . He has published 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals, several chapters in academic books and presented his work in many international conferences and workshops. Paolo Gargiulo is the co-founder of startup company called Heilalabs which aim is to study brain aging and develop new predictive evaluation metrics for neurodegenerative desease.