Almir Badnjević

Badnjević was born on 13 July 1986 in Bosanska Krupa. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Sarajevo.^[5] He completed his PhD in 2015 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb.^[6]

Since 2008, Badnjević has worked in academia and industry, with research activities related to medical measurement devices within legal metrology and on improving the traceability of medical measurements. He co-authored and edited Inspection of Medical Devices – for Regulatory Purposes^[7] with Mario Cifrek, Ratko Magjarević, and Zijad Džemić. The first edition was published in 2017 and the second edition appeared in 2023.^[8] In 2022, he founded the Verlab Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices, and Artificial Intelligence.^[9]

In July 2023, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina appointed Badnjević as the director of the Agency for Identification Documents, Registers and Data Exchange (IDDEEA),^[2] for a five-year term, lasting until 2028.^[10]

Since 2015, Badnjević has served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Warwick^[11] in the United Kingdom and as an assistant professor and head of the Department of Genetics and Bioengineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, International Burch University (IBU) in Sarajevo.^[12] In the same year, he assisted in establishing IBU's master’s and doctoral programs in bioengineering, the first such programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[13]

In 2022, he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Information Systems and Technology, University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro.^[14] He also became a senior research associate in engineering and technology at the Verlab Institute in Sarajevo.^[9] His academic work includes more than 200 scientific publications.^[13]