Willem van Meurs

1962 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1987 Electrical engineer, University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1991 PhD in control engineering, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

1992-1998 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

1998-PRESENT Consultant to CAE Healthcare, Montreal, Canada

1998-PRESENT University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Model driven acute care training simulators commercialized by CAE Healthcare

1994 Human Patient Simulator (co-inventor)

1998 PediaSIM(R) (co-developer)

2003 BabySIM(R) (co-developer)

2007 iStan(R) (co-developer)

2009 METIman(TM), Muse(TM) software (co-developer)

2014 Fidelis Maternal Fetal Simulator (inventor)

2005-2007 President, Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM)

Current research interests: systems, models, and simulators in general, modeling and simulation of human cardiorespiratory physiology and pharmacology in particular. Special interests: design of medical training simulators, models for such simulators, and perinatal physiology.