Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields – Computational Models in Dosimetry

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This tutorial addresses computational approaches for assessing human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF), covering both undesired exposure from artificial EMF sources and biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields.

The tutorial introduces environmental aspects of electromagnetic fields, coupling mechanisms between electromagnetic fields and the human body, established biological effects, and international safety guidelines. Computational electromagnetic and thermal dosimetry methods for low-frequency (LF), intermediate-frequency (IF), and high-frequency (HF) exposure are presented, including numerical approaches based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM), Finite Element Method (FEM), hybrid BEM/FEM, and Method of Moments (MoM).

Illustrative examples include exposure to power systems, RFID systems, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), and mobile communication systems, as well as biomedical applications such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (TES). Quantities relevant to exposure assessment include induced electric fields and current densities, SAR, incident and absorbed power density, and tissue temperature elevation.

The final part addresses stochastic modeling, uncertainty quantification, and sensitivity analysis in computational bioelectromagnetics. Recent findings arising from activities within IEEE ICES TC95 SC6 Working Groups and the IRPA Non-Ionizing Radiation Task Group will also be presented.

The tutorial is held in conjunction with the SoftCOM 2026 conference.


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  • Radisson Blu Resort & Spa
  • Put Trstenika 19
  • Split, Splitsko-Dalmatinska
  • Croatia 21000
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Dragan Poljak of University of Split, FESB

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Dragan Poljak received his PhD in el. Eng. in 1996 from the Univ. of Split, Croatia. He is the Full Prof. at Dept. of Electron. and Computing, Univ. of Split. His research interests include computational electromagnetics (electromagnetic compatibility, bioelectromagnetics, ground penetrating radar and plasma physics). To date Prof. Poljak has published more than 160 journ. and 250 conf. papers, and authored some books, e.g. two by Wiley, New Jersey and one by Elsevier, St Louis. He is a Senior member of IEEE, a member of Editorial Board of Eng. Anal. with Boundary Elements, Math. Problems in Eng. And IET Sci. Measur. & Techn. He was awarded by several prizes for his research achievements, such as National Prize for Science (2004), Croatian sect. of IEEE annual Award (2016), Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE EMC Society (2019), George Green Medal from University of Mississippi (2021), IEEE Standards Associations – Certificate of Appreciation, 2022 and National Prize for Science (2023). From May 2013 to June 2021 Prof. Poljak was a member of the board of the Croatian Science Foundation. He was involved in ITER physics EUROfusion collaboration and he is currently involved in IFMIF-DONES EUROfusion collaboration and in Croatian center for excellence in research for tech. sciences. He is active in few Working Groups of IEEE/Internat. Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) Tech. Comm. 95 SC6 EMF Dosimetry Modeling, (co-chair of WG2 and WG7) and Task Group of Nonionizing Radiation of International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA).

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Mario Cvetković of University of Split, FESB

Biography:

Mario Cvetković received his B.S. degree from the University of Split, Split, Croatia, in 2005, the M.Phil. degree from Wessex Institute of Technology, University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K., in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Split in 2013. He is currently Chair for Fundamentals in electrical engineering and an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split, Croatia. To date, he has co-authored more than 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings and several book chapters. In 2019 he coauthored a book entitled “Human Interaction with Electromagnetic Fields – Computational Models in Dosimetry” published by Elsevier. His research interests include numerical modeling with finite elements and method of moments, computational bioelectromagnetics, and heat transfer related phenomena. He held a series of tutorials and seminars related to advanced topics in bioelectromagnetics and various aspects of interaction of humans with electromagnetic fields at: Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany (2010), Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden (2014, 2018), Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan (2017, 2023), University of Maribor, Slovenia (2018, 2019), Hohai University Nanjing, China (2025), several SpliTech conferences (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025), and SoftCOM conferences (2019, 2021, 2022). He is a Member of the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) Technical Committee 95 and its Subcommittee 6 EMF Dosimetry Modeling where he also served as a Working Group 2 secretary from 2017-2019. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award, awarded at the 16th Edition of the International Conference SoftCOM 2008.

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