Programme Team
for ECR 2027

Mathias Prokop is a professor of radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

He had studied medicine and physics in Germany and trained at Hannover Medical School. His career took him to Vienna, Austria and Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he established himself as one of the pioneers of novel CT technologies and lung screening. His department in Nijmegen focuses on impactful innovations in care and now hosts one of the largest research groups in Europe. He now serves as the 1st Vice President of the European Society of Radiology.

Marie-Pierre Revel is currently a full professor of radiology at Université de Paris Cité, Head of the Radiology Department at Cochin Hospital, APHP Centre.

She is past president and honorary member of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging and has an internationally recognised expertise in thoracic imaging. 

She is very involved in the screening of lung cancer by low dose CT. Professor Revel is chair of the Communication and Interdisciplinary Affairs Committee of the European Society of Radiology. She is member of the European Society of Radiology, the European Society of Thoracic Imaging and the Fleischner Society.

Professor Revel is involved in the SOLACE Consortium (Strengthening the Screening of Lung Cancer in Europe) as the leader of the pilot study aimed at improving women's knowledge and participation in lung cancer screening. She is co-chair of an European Respiratory Society task force on the management of positive lung cancer screening results.

In France, she is an expert for the cancer institute (Inca, Institut National du Cancer) and has drawn up recommendations concerning the initial staging of lung cancer. She is a member of the working group of experts preparing the implementation of lung cancer screening through a large pilot study in France.

Professor Revel was awarded Best Radiology Educator 2023 by AuntMinnie Europe and received the KSR-Honorary Educator Award from the Korean Society of Radiology in September 2023.

Professor Minerva Becker, MD is Head of the Unit of Head and Neck and Maxillo-facial Radiology, Diagnostic Department, at the Geneva University Hospitals.

Her clinical expertise includes imaging in head and neck oncology, the skull base, orbit, salivary glands, and inner ear, with a strong tertiary multidisciplinary activity in the respective fields. 

Being widely recognised as an enthusiastic academic teacher, she is in charge of a part of the undergraduate radiology programme at her faculty of medicine. On a national and international level, she has given over 450 invited lectures focusing on head and neck radiology. Over many years, she has chaired the Education Committee of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ESHNR), overseeing the European subspecialty training curriculum and the subspecialty examination in head and neck radiology. She is the Past President of the ESHNR. Professor Becker has served on the Executive Council of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) as chair of the Education Committee.

As a leader of the Research Group on Head and Neck Radiology at the University of Geneva, she has led multiple research projects as a primary scientific investigator with competitive public grants funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

Her scientific work has mainly focused on advanced oncologic imaging in the head and neck with MRI, CT, PET CT, and PET MRI. Professor Becker's most recent research projects are dedicated to multiparametric imaging and texture analysis. Her academic record includes over 200 scientific articles. She is the recipient of 30 prestigious international or national awards for her scientific and educational work. Professor Becker has served on the editorial board or in the review process of 12 international scientific journals in radiology, oncology, and otorhinolaryngology.

Andrea Rockall graduated from King's College London Medical School, London, in 1990 and was trained in radiology at St. Mary's Hospital and University College Hospital, London. For the FRCR examination, she was awarded the Rohan Williams Medal (Gold Medal). In 2000, she was appointed Senior Lecturer in Diagnostic Imaging at Queen Mary University London and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Barts and The London NHS Trust.

Following appointments at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital, Professor Rockall was appointed Clinical Chair of Radiology at Imperial College London in April 2018. She is currently the Chairperson of the ESR Board of Directors.

Professor Rockall's special interests are genitourinary cancer, image-based clinical trials, and machine-learning applications in radiology. She is the Chief Investigator of the CRUK MAPPING trial, the NIHR trials MALIBO, MALIMAR (machine learning studies), and the NIHR MROC study (multicentre UK trial in ovarian cancer). She contributes widely to undergraduate, postgraduate, and specialist radiology education.

Professor Catalano is a full professor of radiology and chairs the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I.

He obtained his medical degree at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1990 and completed his training in radiology at the University of L'Aquila in 1994.

Professor Catalano's main clinical interests are cardiovascular and oncological imaging. He leads research in digital health and innovations at the Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on integrating digital health data to develop precision medicine and digital and biological twins, to improve diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. His research track record is in digital health in cardiovascular and oncological diseases, for which he collaborates with numerous centres worldwide. He has been awarded several grants as a principal investigator coordinating numerous centres.

Professor Catalano is the ESR President. He has also chaired the ESR Educational Committee and has served in numerous other committees and sub-committees of the ESR and ESR sub-speciality societies.

Professor Catalano represents the ESR on the Board of the European Cancer Organisation (ECO), in which he co-chairs the committee Digital Health.

He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers, which have been cited over 13,000 times. He has authored numerous chapters, edited several books, and is also a part of the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Catalano has delivered more than 500 invited lectures, including the Josef Lissner lecture at ECR 2013.

Ioana-Andreea Gheonea, MD, PhD, is a professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova and Past President of the Romanian Society of Radiology and Imaging (2021-2023). She was a Romanian delegate in the ESR Quality, Safety and Standards Committee and the Research Committee. She has been appointed Vice-President of the Radiology Specialty Committee for the Romanian Ministry of Health. From 2024, she is the Chairperson of the Young ESR Committee.

She is an experienced and accomplished radiologist with over a decade of expertise in both academic and clinical settings, specialising in medical imaging, particularly in advanced techniques such as MRI and CT, with a deep focus on breast and rectal cancer and liver diseases.

As a radiology and medical imaging professor at UMF Craiova, she is dedicated to educating and mentoring the next generation of radiologists, fostering a learning environment that emphasises technical skills and critical thinking. Her passion for advancing the field of medical imaging is matched by a commitment to improving patient outcomes using cutting-edge diagnostic techniques. She is also driven by the goal of bridging the gap between clinical practice and academic research, ensuring that innovative imaging technologies are accessible and beneficial to medical professionals and patients.

Professor Gheonea is a member of several national and international societies, guest editor of a special issue of Life Journal, and author of a national patent. She has (co)authored numerous publications and delivered lectures in radiology and imaging and at other clinical speciality meetings. Her research interest is suggested by her participation as project director and as a member in national and international projects.

Amelie M. Lutz is the Deputy Chief, Head of MSK Imaging and Head of Research at Team Radiologie Plus in Switzerland and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at Stanford University.

She received her medical degree from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2000. After her internship in internal medicine, she became a radiology resident at the University of Zurich, where she also received the Venia Legendi in the field of kinematic and cellular musculoskeletal MRI in 2008. In parallel, she was a postdoctoral fellow for molecular imaging at Stanford University, where she later served as clinical instructor, assistant professor and finally as chief of the Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging. In 2021, she became an associate professor at Stanford University until her return to Switzerland in 2023. Since then, she has worked as deputy chief at Team Radiologie Plus in Münsterlingen, Switzerland and serves as clinical adjunct professor at Stanford.

Professor Lutz's main research interests are molecular imaging in oncology and inflammatory disorders, kinematic musculoskeletal imaging, and molecular imaging of musculoskeletal inflammatory diseases. Her clinical interests include MR Neurography, musculoskeletal radiology, and image-guided procedures.

She has been very participative in international scientific meetings and educational programs, as well as in the local training and educational programs at Stanford University, and has authored or co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications. She currently coordinates all research activities in the Team Radiologie Plus, including several research studies on clinical application of advanced MR technique sequences, post-processing and AI applications. Since her return, she has also been very active in giving invited lectures in Europe.

Professor Lutz is committed to fostering European education and training in radiology with a special focus on the next generation. As she stated, “To attract the best talents, we need to start with outreach early, in medical schools and even high schools, to bring the field of radiology to the forefront of awareness in the younger generations.”

Konstantin Nikolaou is a professor of radiology and Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Eberhard-Karl-University in Tübingen, Germany.

He received his medical degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2000, where he also became an assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals Munich, after finalising his PhD-thesis on the topic of modern cardiovascular computed tomography techniques in 2007. He was the Vice Chair of the same Department from 2007 to 2014.

Professor Nikolaou joined the Eberhard-Karl-University Tübingen in April 2014 as Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. His main fields of interest are multimodality and multiparametric imaging modalities in oncology and non-invasive imaging of cardiovascular diseases. He has authored and co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Nikolaou is Vice-President of the German Roentgen Ray Society (DRG) as well as a member of the Executive Council of the European Society of Radiology, a Member of the International Society of Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R) and an Honorary Member of the Greek and Chinese Society of Radiology. He has been involved in several national and international publicly funded grants. He is currently one of the principal investigators within the "Cluster of Excellence" (German Ministry of Education and Research) project on "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies (iFIT)" (2180 EXC).

Dr. Raquel Perez-Lopez is a leading expert in cancer imaging biomarkers, with more than 10 years of experience advancing precision medicine through innovative imaging techniques.

Early in her career, she contributed to pioneering whole-body MRI for bone metastasis response evaluation at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Currently, as the head of the Radiomics Group at VHIO (Barcelona), her research focuses on multiparametric MRI and the application of AI-driven models to extract meaningful insights from medical images, enhancing cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Raquel Perez-Lopez leads the Cancer Core Europe (CCE) Imaging Task Force, driving radiomics research and collaborating with the Data Sharing Task Force to develop secure imaging data-sharing platforms across CCE centres. As a member of the EASL AI Task Force, she contributes to the advancement of AI in imaging biomarker research for liver disease detection and management.

Her editorial contributions include serving on the boards of NPJ Precision Oncology, Cancer Research Communications, and ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology, ensuring the dissemination of cutting-edge imaging research. Dr. Raquel Perez-Lopez has led multiple investigator-initiated imaging biomarker trials in collaboration with hospitals across Europe. As a member of the RECIST Working Group, she actively contributes to establishing global standards for cancer response assessment.

Dr. McNulty is a professor and the Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning of the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, the largest constituent college within University College Dublin (UCD), with over 7,500 students and a University Fellow in Teaching and Academic Development.

From 2017 to 2023, he was Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Professional Development) in the UCD School of Medicine, where he oversaw more than 70 taught postgraduate programmes and continuing professional development activities across the School.

He has delivered over 240 conference presentations, authored over 100 journal articles, and held significant national and international research grants. He is the president of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB). He is the current ESMRMB representative on the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Postgraduate Educational Programme (PEP) Subcommittee of the Programme Planning Committee (PPC). He is a past president (2017–2021) of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS). Professor McNulty is a former Chair of the Radiographers Scientific Subcommittee for ECR and a member of the ECR PEP Subcommittee of the PPC for ECR 2020, ECR 2021, and ECR 2022.

He returned to the ECR 2026 Programme Planning Committee as the ESMRMB nominee. He is Editor-in-Chief with Radiography (Elsevier), the official journal of the EFRS.

Joana Santos is a professor at Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department of Coimbra Health School, Coimbra Polytechnic Institute (ESTeSC-IPC). She obtained a post-doc in Health Sciences at University of Coimbra, in diagnostic imaging at University College Dublin, and a master's in biomedical engineering at University of Aveiro. She finished her bachelor in radiolography with honors.

Professor Santos started her professional activity in 2003 as a radiographer. Since 2006, she has been a full time academic at ESTeSC-IPC. She is the Head of World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborative Centre of Radiation Protection and Health, Vice-Chair of European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS) Educational Wing Management Team, Vice President of Scientific Committee of EURAMED – European Alliance for Medical Radiation Protection Research and Past President of the Portuguese Society of Radiology, Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (ATARP).

She collaborates in activities promoted by WHO, EuroSafe Imaging and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Professor Santos was considered a Radiation Protection Expert of EFRS Expert Network.

She participated as a researcher in Portuguese and European Radiation Protection projects. Her research interest is focused on diagnostic imaging dosimetry, quality control, image quality analyses, optimisation and education and training. She performed the first approach to Portuguese CT Diagnostic Reference Levels. Professor Santos is an author of a large number of scientific oral communications and papers in radiation protection and optimisation.

Ioannis Seimenis is a medical physicist, board-certified in both ionising and non-ionising radiation physics.

He is currently serving as professor of medical physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece, whilst in the past, he held a series of posts in the medical industry and in the private healthcare sector.

Professor Seimenis is currently the Elected President of the Hellenic Federation of University Teachers' Associations and the Elected Vice-President of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists. He chairs the Committee of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission for the certification of radioprotection experts in medical exposures and is a member of the Ministry of Health Committee for Ionising and non-Ιonising Radiations.

He currently serves as the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics representative in the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, while he is one of the founding members of the EFOMP Special Interest Group in MRI. His main research interests lie in the field of medical imaging, mainly MRI and CT, extending from basic physics to modern technology and advanced applications.

Professor Seimenis has co-authored 146 peer-reviewed scientific publications, as well as 165 peer-reviewed abstracts in international conference proceedings and has given numerous invited talks in national and international Scientific Meetings or Congresses. He has participated, as senior investigator or scientific coordinator, in 32 competitive research projects funded by national and international research promoting bodies.

Dr. Steve Connor was appointed consultant neuroradiologist at the King's College Hospital, London, in 2002.

He also holds an honorary position as a consultant head and neck radiologist at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital. Dr. Connor is a Past President of the British Society of Head and Neck Imaging (BSHNI), was the first Visiting Professor for BSHNI, and is currently the Secretary and Chair of the Education Committee for the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology. He holds the honorary and adjunct reader position in head and neck imaging at the King's College London.

He has authored over 180 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 36), written 14 book chapters, and acted as deputy or associate editor for three journals. His main research interests are head and neck cancer, skull base and otology imaging, and he is currently the chief investigator for three active studies.

Dr. Melvin D'Anastasi is a consultant radiologist with a special interest in oncologic imaging.

He serves as Acting Chairperson of the Medical Imaging Department at Mater Dei Hospital, Malta, and as Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. Dr. D’Anastasi completed his radiology training at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital in Munich.

In 2013, he was awarded an ESOR Scholarship in oncologic imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. His clinical and research work has since focused on oncologic imaging, particularly tumour response assessment.

Dr. D’Anastasi has a long-standing commitment to education in oncologic imaging. He served as Chair of the ESOI Education Committee (2017–2021), ESOI Secretary (2021–2023), ESOI President-Elect (2023–2025), and currently holds the position of ESOI President (since March 2025). He co-founded the ESOI Webinars and co-organises the annual ESOI/EORTC Workshops on tumour response assessment.

He was a member of the ECR Programme Planning Team for 2022 and 2023, Chair of the Oncologic Imaging Planning Subcommittee for ECR 2025 and a member of the Programme Team for ECR 2026. He also lectures in the Master in Oncologic Imaging Programme at the University of Pisa.

Since 2023, Dr. D’Anastasi has served as President of the Malta Association of Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine Physicians. He has authored or co-authored over 70 scientific publications and is a reviewer for several international radiological journals.

Stevo Duvnjak is an interventional radiologist and vascular surgeon with extensive experience in EVAR, TEVAR and various embolisation procedures.

He finished his medical education in Belgrade, Serbia in 1999, and took residency training in Diagnostic Radiology from 2002 to 2006. He has particularly focused on Interventional Vascular Radiology and endovascular surgery since 2006. Dr. Duvnjak took residency training in vascular surgery from 2019 to 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, he is working as a consultant cascular surgeon at Rigshosptalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

His primary research interests include endovascular aneurysm treatment and various embolisation interventions. As the author of more than 30 articles in international journals, at Odense University Hospital, Dr. Duvnjak introduced percutaneous EVAR, ruptured AAA treatment with EVAR, and branched and fenestrated stent grafts. Dr. Duvnjak published two books about endovascular treatment.

Michel Eisenblätter currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University of Bielefeld Medical Center, Campus Lippe and Chair of Clinical Radiology at the University of Bielefeld Medical School, Germany.

He obtained his medical degree and training in clinical radiology from the University of Münster, Germany. Prof. Eisenblätter joined King's College London, UK, as a Clinical Research Fellow in 2010, working between the Division of Imaging Sciences and the Dimbleby Department of Cancer Research for a period of five years. He earned a PhD in Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering in 2017.

Before his appointment at the University of Bielefeld, Prof. Eisenblätter served as Head of Oncologic Imaging at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University of Freiburg Medical Center.

In 2019, Prof. Eisenblätter was awarded the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Prize of the German Society of Radiology.

Prof. Eisenblätter is an active member of ESOI and ESHI and has held various offices in the German Society of Radiology, including serving as a member of the Directorate of the Academy for Education in Radiology.

Willemijn M. Klein is an associate professor of paediatric radiology at the Radboud University Medical Center and Amalia Children's Hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

After obtaining her medical degree and PhD at Utrecht University, she was trained as a radiologist in Utrecht and Nijmegen. She has been the chair of the Dutch Paediatric Radiologists for many years, coordinating guidelines, education and societal themes. Her primary clinical and research interest is in congenital malformations, which she finds in the radiology of (living and deceased) fetuses, children and (young) adults. Her leading research focuses on vascular malformations, especially central lymphatic anomalies, leading the Lymphomics group and supervising PhD students. She is the co-chair of the Lymphangiography group of the European Reference Network VascERN. Further, she chairs the Taskforce Postmortem Imaging of the European Society of Pediatric Radiology. Previously, she was the chair of the ECR 2024 Paediatric Subcommittee and coordinated the Radiology of the Afterlife programme for ECR 2023.

Valeria Panebianco is a full professor of radiology at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, where she serves as the Head of the Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology, and Pathology and is a member of the Academic Senate.

Professor Panebianco has been a vital member of several international scientific societies, contributing significantly to the organisation's guidelines and educational initiatives, as well as a member of the scientific committee for the ECR. She has been a regular contributor to refresher courses at ECR/RSNA.

She holds prominent international roles: Chair of the ACR VI-RADS Steering Committee, Member of the ESR Communication and Interdisciplinary Affairs Committee, Panel Member of EAU Guidelines on Muscle-Invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer, Chair of the ESUR Prostate MRI Working Group, and President of the SIRM Urogenital Radiology Section.

Professor Panebianco has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers, with a primary focus on imaging prostate and bladder cancer. Recently, her research emphasises the application of computational medicine to identify biomarkers for tumour early detection, personalised therapy and monitoring, through the development of Digital Twin technologies.

Professor Panebianco has led position papers on MRI standardisation, specifically for bladder cancer (VI-RADS – Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System) and prostate cancer recurrence (PI-RR – Prostate MRI for Local Recurrence Reporting). Additionally, she was appointed by the WHO to contribute to the Blue Book on Urinary Tumours. She organised the first national screening trial for early prostate cancer detection.

Professor Panebianco actively fosters collaboration among radiologists, oncologists, and urologists to ensure that advancements in imaging technology translate into enhanced patient care and outcomes.

Daniel Pinto dos Santos is managing senior radiologist at the University Medical Center Mainz, with a particular interest in imaging informatics and abdominal imaging.

He graduated in medicine from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where he also completed his radiology training at the University Medical Center. After a visiting research fellowship at the Hospital Universitari La Fe in Valencia, Spain, and working at the University Hospitals of Cologne and Frankfurt, he returned to his alma mater in Mainz in 2025.

Professor Pinto dos Santos is the past chair of the Information Technology Committee of the German Radiological Society and the ESR's eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee, the current President of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, and the Deputy Editor of European Radiology.

Professor Alexandra Platon is head of the Emergency Radiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva, specialising in imaging of traumatic and non-traumatic neurologic and body emergencies.

She teaches radiology in the undergraduate programme at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, and in the residency programme at Geneva University Hospital. She supervises master's and doctoral theses in radiology. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of imaging guidelines and strategies for acute pathologies, the quality assessment of the emergency radiological activity, and the clinical evaluation and implementation of AI technologies dedicated to emergency imaging.

Professor Platon is the past president of the Swiss Society of Emergency Radiology and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Society of Radiology. She has been an organiser and speaker at numerous national and European radiology meetings and serves as a reviewer for several scientific radiology journals. She actively promotes the advancement of emergency radiology in both research and education.

Rodrigo Salgado is a staff radiologist at the Holy Heart Hospital Lier and consultant radiologist at Antwerp University Hospital.

He specialises in non-invasive CT/MR imaging of cardiovascular disease, with particular expertise in valvular and coronary artery imaging. Dr. Salgado holds a PhD in this field from the Faculty of Medicine at Antwerp University.

Since 2017, he has served on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), of which he has been President since 2024. In 2019, he was ESCR Congress President and currently serves in the scientific editorial board of Insights into Imaging as section editor Cardiovascular. He is also the section editor of the cardiovascular division for ESR Eurorad.

Dr. Salgado previously served as a member and chair of the Cardiac Scientific Subcommittee for the European Congress of Radiology in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has been a member of the European Congress of Radiology programme team since 2025.

For over a decade, he has been a frequently invited speaker at international meetings and has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop received her professorship of radiology at Hannover Medical School, Germany in 2007.

She works at Meander Medical Centre in Amersfoort, and at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Professor Schaefer-Prokop is known for her research in chest radiology covering the applications of computer-aided diagnosis/artificial intelligence in CT and radiography, CT of interstitial lung diseases and screening for diagnosis and staging of bronchogenic carcinoma. She is an editorial board member of Radiology and European Radiology. She is the author of some 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 40 book chapters, and is co-editor or editor of three textbooks.

Professor Schaefer-Prokop has delivered over 250 invited lectures at international conferences and postgraduate teaching courses, including the ECR, RSNA, ERS, and the IDKD. She served as president of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) in 2014 and as president of the Fleischner Society in 2022.

Professor Iwona Sudol-Szopinska, MD, PhD, graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw and obtained specialisation in nuclear medicine in 1998 and radiology in 2002.

She is the Head of the Department of Radiology in the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation in Warsaw.

Since 2012, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of "Journal of Ultrasonography", an official journal of the Polish Ultrasound Society (IF 1,5). She has been a Vice-Chair of the Sports Section of the Polish Radiological Society. She has been a supervisor of 16 PhD postgraduate students. From 2015 to 2018, she was chairperson of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee. As a radiologist, her primary interest is musculoskeletal system imaging with a special focus on rheumatic diseases in adults and juveniles.

Professor Iwona Sudol-Szopinska organises courses and conferences dedicated to musculoskeletal imaging in sports and rheumatology. She authored or co-authored more than 295 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited or co-edited 30 chapters and six monographs, and gave a number of invited lectures.

Associate professor, radiologist, nuclear medicine specialist, twin researcher, medical economist, and health manager. Head of the Nuclear Medicine Department in the Medical Imaging Centre of Semmelweis University and previous head of the Oncologic Imaging and Invasive Diagnostic Center of the National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary. Founding member of the Hungarian Twin Registry.

He has given over 500 international and domestic lectures and has over 170 publications, as well as been the author or co-author of 34 book chapters. Board member of the Hungarian Society of Radiologists. Supervisor of more than 75 medical students and 7 PhD students. He teaches radiology in English, German and Hungarian at Semmelweis University. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the head of the ultrasound department at the Department of Radiology, Semmelweis University. Between 2017 and 2019, he was the head of English studies at the Department of Radiology, Semmelweis University.

Past Secretary of the Hungarian Chapter of the Hungarian Medical Association of America, member of the editorial board of the Hungarian Radiology journal, member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Diagnostic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, current President of the International Society for Twin Studies, visiting associate professor of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. He is a member of the Ultrasound section of the Hungarian Society of Radiologists, and a member of the board of the interstitial lung diseases (ILD) section of the Hungarian Society of Pulmologists.

Stuart Taylor is a professor of medical imaging at University College London and has a clinical and research interest in gastrointestinal radiology, especially small bowel imaging.

He is an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator and Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow. He sits on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology and chairs its Research Committee. He also chairs the UK National NIHR Imaging Group and has published over 280 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters.

Professor Taylor lectures widely. He is the immediate Past President of the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. He is a senior editor for the British Journal of Radiology.

Professor Meike Vernooij is a neuroradiologist and professor of Population Imaging at the Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Epidemiology at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Her research focuses on the use of MRI in the investigation of age-related brain changes, specifically those which may be used as preclinical markers for cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Her work has been recognised with the European Prize for Neuroradiology (Lucien Appel Prize), the Stroke Innovation Award, and the Lourens Penning Prize of the Dutch Society of Radiology.

Professor Vernooij has authored over 450 peer-reviewed publications in the field of (population) neuroimaging and is currently supervising 10 PhD students and 2 postdocs. She is the Chair of the Written Evaluation Committee of EDiR, as well as the Chair of the Diagnostic Committee of the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR). She, furthermore, teaches regularly in the ECNR course cycle of ESNR and is an examiner for the EDiNR. Within Erasmus MC, she chairs the Talent and Innovation Council, aimed at furthering talent development and support for (young) researchers.

Sophia Zackrisson, MD, PhD, professor of radiology, is head of Diagnostic Radiology in Malmö, Department of Translational Medicine at Lund University, Sweden and senior consultant radiologist at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö.

She obtained her medical degree at Lund University and a PhD in epidemiology in 2006 with a thesis on mammography screening at the same institution. In 2011, Zackrisson did a postdoc in molecular imaging at the Gambhir Lab, Stanford University, CA, USA.

Professor Zackrisson has initiated several clinical and epidemiological studies within breast cancer imaging, with the most important achievements as PI of the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Trial, MBTST. Artificial intelligence applications in screening, image-based risk prediction models, and mechanical and optical imaging of the breast are areas of the group's current investigations. Metastatic disease, prostate and colorectal cancer are other areas of interest.

She is currently Deputy Director of the Precision Medicine Centre in southern Sweden, serves as Editor-in-Chief for European Radiology Breast and has been engaged in teaching activities at different levels all her career, including program planning committees and sub-committee work for the European Society of Radiology. Professor Zackrisson is the author of more than 180 journal papers and several book chapters. She is the President of the Swedish Society of Breast Radiology and a European Society of Breast Imaging board member. In 2020, she was named "Cancer Researcher of the Year" by the Swedish Cancer Society for her achievements in cancer imaging and has received numerous research awards over the years.

Steve Ebdon-Jackson has spent his entire career in the healthcare sector.

After working ten years as a medical physicist, he became a policy maker, regulator and inspector at the Department of Health (England) before moving to the Health Protection Agency/Public Health England, where he provided advisory functions to the UK government and international organisations and the Secretariat to the UK's Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee and Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment. During this period, he simultaneously held the positions of Chairman of the European Commission's Article 31 Group: Working Party Medical and Chairman of the Heads of the European Radiation Protection Competent Authorities: Working Group Medical Applications.

He has contributed to the development and writing of International Basic Safety Standards, European Directives, and multiple national and international guidance documents, and he has lectured worldwide on radiation protection issues. In recognition of his contributions, he has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists, an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and The British Nuclear Medicine's Norman Veal Medal.

Since retiring in 2019, he has continued to work with international organisations, including WHO, IAEA and the European Society of Radiology, on subjects as varied as justification of CT, clinical audit, opportunistic screening using CT and ethics in radiological imaging. Taking this experience and that of a patient, he has transitioned into a role as a patient advocate, with a special interest in communication and ethics, as a member and Chairman of the ESR's Patient Advisory Group.

Dr. Fleur Kilburn-Toppin has been a consultant radiologist in Cambridge since 2015, having graduated from Cambridge University in 2006.

She is Director of Breast Screening at Cambridge University Hospital, and a Fellow, Medical Lecturer and Director of Studies in both Anatomy and Clinical Medicine at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. She is the current Chair of the e-Learning Editorial Board for the European Congress of Radiology.

She is on the Executive Board and Educational Committee for the European Society for Breast Imaging and is an examiner for the European Diploma in Breast Imaging. Dr. Kilburn-Toppin is the subspecialty training lead for breast imaging for the East of England Imaging Academy Health Education England.

Dr. Kilburn-Toppin's research interests are on various aspects of breast imaging, and she has published on a range of breast imaging topics and written multiple book chapters on breast imaging. She is on the Editorial Board for Acta Radiologica and has advised on national and international guidelines for breast imaging, including the ECR Referral Guidelines Subcommittee. Dr. Kilburn-Toppin was the Visiting Professor for the Royal College of Radiology and British Society of Breast Radiology in 2023.

Christian Loewe is the chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

He is the Educational and Scientific Director of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) and a member of the Executive Council of the ESR. He is a member of the Executive Council of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) and is currently the Past-President of the Austrian Roentgen Society. He is co-coordinator of the ECR section "The Cube: Unconventional, Interventional".

He was a member of the Editorial Board of European Radiology, associate editor of Radiology (2011–2017), and serves currently as a Deputy Editor of Insights Into Imaging.

His clinical and scientific work mainly focuses on non-invasive cardiovascular diagnostic imaging and diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases. He has delivered over 450 invited lectures and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Anagha P. Parkar is a general radiologist working in Bergen, Norway. She is particularly interested in musculoskeletal, chest and cardiac imaging.

She received her medical degree from the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, in 1998. After the obligatory clinical internships in surgery and medicine, as well as general practice in Northern Norway from 1999 to 2001, she commenced her radiology training in Bergen. She completed her radiology training in 2007 and remained at Haukeland University Hospital in the Radiology Department for a year as a consultant in thoracic radiology.

Since 2008, Dr. Parkar has worked as a general radiologist at Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital. She is actively involved in teaching medical students from the University of Bergen and researching in imaging. In 2021, she defended her PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. In 2023, she was appointed clinical lead in the radiology department.

Dr. Parkar serves on the boards of the Norwegian Society of Radiology, Norwegian Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and European Society of Skeletal Radiology. She is currently a part of the Executive Committee of the Norwegian Thoracic Radiology Society and the European Society of Thoracic Imaging. In the family of ESR/EBR, she is active on several boards and committees, and is currently the chairperson of the EDI subcommittee in the ESR.

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Dr. P. Diana Afonso is a consultant radiologist specialising in musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging.

She coordinates the MSK Imaging Unit at Hospital CUF Tejo in Lisbon and across the Tejo Cluster in Portugal, and is also a staff radiologist for Hospital Particular Madeira. As a former Research Fellow at Duke University (2009–2010), she holds the ESSR European Diploma in MSK radiology and previously led the MSK Imaging Unit at Hospital Beatriz Ângelo (2012–2019).

Dr. Afonso serves as a councillor on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) and contributes to its Sports Imaging Subcommittee. She will chair the MSK Scientific Committee for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2027.

A member of the International Skeletal Society (ISS) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), she also served as the local host of the ISS Annual Meeting 2025 in Lisbon. Dr. Afonso is a frequently invited speaker and author of multiple publications and book chapters, including the ESSR MRI Guidelines for Sports Injuries.

Dr. Judith Babar was appointed consultant radiologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in 2007 and currently serves as Lead for Thoracic Imaging. She is an affiliated assistant professor at the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Babar completed a thoracic imaging fellowship in Vancouver, Canada, under the mentorship of Dr. Nestor Muller. She is an Executive Committee Member of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) and is actively involved in radiology education and training. Her contributions include serving as an examiner for the Final FRCR 2B examinations for the Royal College of Radiologists and as a former Chair of the Written Evaluation Committee for the European Diploma in Radiology.

Her research focuses on thoracic diseases, with publications covering interstitial lung disease, COPD, and primary immunodeficiencies. Dr. Babar is a regular speaker at national and international scientific conferences and also holds a part-time role as Clinical Director of Lung Cancer Screening at the HLH Imaging Group.

Dr. Arindam Bharadwaz works as a senior consultant interventionist in the Department of Radiology, and associate professor (ex) at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.

He was the President of the Danish Society of Interventional Radiology (DFIR) for six years. He is currently the chairman of the Scientific Subcommittee Interventional Radiology for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2027. He served as the CIRSE (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe) local host committee chairman in 2023 at Copenhagen, and local host committee member in 2017 and 2026.

In the UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes), he serves as the CIRSE representative for the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee for wound healing, in addition to being the IR representative to the UEMS from Denmark, and a member of the UEMS Thematic Federation for Green and Sustainable Medical Practice. He remained the chief coordinator for the Nordic Societies of IR from 2016 to 2023. He serves on the editorial board of CVIR (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology), Academia Medical Imaging and Radiology, and is a reviewer of many international journals. He is/was on the scientific committees of CIRSE, ESR and DFIR. Dr. Bharadwaz has many peer-reviewed scientific publications and national and international lectures to his credit. He received his IR fellowship (EBIR) from CIRSE in 2011.

Currently, he is the President of the Sustainability Foundation, Denmark. Dr. Bharadwaz is an instructor for CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), certified by the European Resuscitation Council and the Danish Heart Association. Additionally, he is an avid yoga enthusiast and a certified yoga instructor through SVYASA Yoga University in India. He is actively engaged with many volunteer, social, cultural and other organisations.

Dr. Pablo Caro Dominguez graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Sevilla in 2006, and did his radiology residency in Hospital Universitario de Santiago de Compostela from 2007 to 2011.

He completed paediatric radiology fellowships from 2011 to 2016 at Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada, and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

He is currently working as a paediatric radiologist in Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain. His primary interests are pediatric cardiac imaging and foetal and neonatal imaging. He was the Congress President of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology's 2024 meeting.

Renato Cuocolo, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Salerno in Italy.

He completed his medical degree in 2011, his Radiology residency in 2017, and a PhD in Biomorphological and Surgical Sciences in 2020.

Dr. Cuocolo maintains a strong commitment to organisational leadership within European radiology. He currently chairs the ESR eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee and the EuSoMII Scientific Committee, actively driving the integration of technology and AI into the clinical workflow. He is also a member of the ESR E-Learning Subcommittee and the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) Prostate MRI Working Group.

His primary research focuses on radiomics and artificial intelligence applications in medical imaging, with a special emphasis on musculoskeletal and genitourinary radiology. This translational work is supported by his role as a researcher at the Augmented Reality for Health Monitoring Laboratory (ARHeMLab) and his participation in the EuroAIM initiative (within EIBIR). Dr. Cuocolo serves on the Editorial Boards for several journals, including European Radiology and European Radiology Experimental.

Paulina Due-Tønnessen is Chair of the Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Oslo University Hospital, a neuroradiologist and associate professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.

She has studied medicine in Groningen, the Netherlands, and trained as a radiologist in Tromsø and Oslo, Norway. She obtained her MHA and PhD at the University of Oslo. She has been the chair of the Norwegian Neuroradiological Society for many years. She is a member of the ExCom of the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), as secretary of the Institutional Council. She teaches regularly in the ECNR course cycle and is an examiner for the EDiNR.

Her research focuses on the evaluation of new MRI techniques and their clinical impact on diagnostic imaging in patients with brain lesions. Further on, she contributes to research using MRI in brain development and changes during the life span.

Muşturay Karçaaltıncaba, M.D. is currently working as a professor of radiology, at Hacettepe University Hospitals.

He did a body imaging fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2001. His main interests are abdominal imaging with an emphasis on liver imaging and cardiovascular imaging. He is the chief of CT and also leads the liver imaging team.

He has 242 articles on PubMed and has given more than 650 lectures on five continents and in 57 countries, including major meetings such as ECR, ESGAR, RSNA, UEG, ARRS, ACAR, SOCHRADI(CChR), ASEAN, APASL and was an RSNA International Visiting Professor. He is a member of the ESGAR Executive Committee and the LIRADS International Working Group. He chaired the IRIYA Subcommittee of the International Radiology Education (CIRE) Committee. His articles have been downloaded more than 900.000 times. He is a reviewer for 47 journals.

Dr. Doris Leithner serves as an assistant professor of radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health.

She obtained her medical degree at the Medical University of Vienna and received her clinical training at the University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany. During her residency, she spent one year as a research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York. After completing her residency, she returned to MSKCC to assume a position as research associate, followed by a nuclear oncology fellowship until 2023, when she joined the faculty at NYU. In parallel to her work at MSKCC and NYU, she was awarded the Privatdozent degree at the Medical University of Vienna and obtained a MHBA degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Professor Leithner has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles (current h-index 29) and is a member of the Research Committee of the European Society of Oncologic Imaging (ESOI). Her research career has been characterised by a multifaceted approach to imaging, spanning various modalities and subspecialties across prestigious European and American academic medical centres, with a focus on PET and MRI. The core objectives of her research in oncology are image-based tumour characterisation, assessment of tumour heterogeneity using artificial intelligence and radiomics approaches, early response assessment to cancer treatment, and prediction of patient outcomes.

Ritse Mann is a breast radiologist at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen and the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.

He is the research group leader of the breast imaging group, performing clinical breast imaging research at both institutions.

Areas of particular interest include breast cancer screening and breast MRI. Significant achievements include the invention of ultrafast breast MRI, clinical validation of MRI screening íin various populations, including women with dense breasts, and the development of several guidelines and state-of-the-art recommendations in this field. In addition, his research focuses on minimal invasive therapy and the use of artificial intelligence for screening, diagnosis and therapy selection of breast cancer.

He has been a member of the executive board of the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) since 2015. Dr. Mann is the current chairperson of the Scientific Committee and past chair of the Programme Planning Committee of its annual meeting. In addition, he is interim Deputy Editor for Radiology for breast imaging, advisory editorial board member of European Radiology and its subjournals, past chair of the working group "diagnostics" of the Dutch breast cancer research group (BOOG), and chair of the Dutch College of Breast Imaging.

Dr. Nieboer is a senior staff member in the Department of Radiology of the University Hospital Brussels (VUB).

He received his medical degree at the Vrije University Brussels in 2002 and followed a residency in the Middelheim Hospital in Antwerp and the University Hospital Brussels.

Since 2007, Dr. Nieboer has worked in the University Hospital Brussels's neuroradiology and senology sections. He has also been responsible for emergency radiology since 2009. His main interests are acute stroke CT, spectral CT, artificial intelligence, polytrauma, intensive care, and mass casualty imaging.

For now, Dr. Nieboer is a fellow and the European Society of Emergency Radiology (ESER) secretary. He was a member of the Emergency Radiology Scientific Subcommittee of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in 2019, 2020 and 2024 and will chair this subcommittee for ECR 2027. He was a member of the Emergency Radiology Scientific Subcommittee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in 2020, 2021 (multi-system), 2022 and 2025. He joined the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee (AMPPC) of the RSNA in 2023.

Dr. Nieboer has been an active member of the American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER) since 2006, volunteers in committees and has been a faculty member (speaker, moderator, and workshop facilitator) during ASER meetings since 2013. In 2022, he received the title of Fellow of the ASER.

In 2022, he was appointed an expert for the national Superior Health Council.

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Tobias  Penzkofer is a senior consultant radiologist and associate professor of radiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

He leads the Quantitative Imaging Lab (QILAB) and his clinical focus lies in oncologic, urogenital, and gastrointestinal imaging, with additional expertise in advanced imaging informatics.

After completing medical studies in Jena, Würzburg, and Lille, Professor Penzkofer earned his doctoral degree summa cum laude in bioinformatics and received training in radiology at RWTH Aachen University and Charité Berlin. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

His scientific work focuses on quantitative and AI-based imaging biomarkers, image-guided interventions, and digital infrastructures for imaging research. He has been a principal investigator in several European projects and is one of the coordinators of the German national radiology research network, RACOON, which encompasses all university hospitals in Germany.

Professor Penzkofer is a member of the ESUR Prostate MRI Working Group, the ACR International Prostate MR Working Group, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII). His contributions to radiological research have been recognised with the Hermann Rieder Medal of the German Radiological Society.

Dr Natalia Saltybaeva is a medical physicist at Luzerner Kantonsspital (LUKS) in Lucerne, Switzerland.

She holds a PhD in medical physics, specialises in computed tomography (CT), radiation protection, and dose optimisation, and has been a member of the ECR Scientific Committee since 2024.

Her research focuses on improving patient safety and diagnostic quality through optimised imaging protocols, radiation dose estimation, and patient positioning techniques. Dr. Saltybaeva has published extensively in leading journals, including Radiology, Investigative Radiology, Medical Physics, and European Radiology.

As an active member of the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics (SSRMP), she is leading several working groups and collaborates closely with the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health on continuous improvement of radiation safety and legal standards. Her work bridges scientific innovation with practical clinical application, promoting safer and more effective medical imaging practices.

Dr. Martina Scharitzer is an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

She serves as Deputy Head of the Division of General and Paediatric Radiology and Section Chief of Gastrointestinal Imaging. Her clinical and research interests focus on gastrointestinal radiology, with a special emphasis on small bowel and upper gastrointestinal imaging.

She is a board member of the Austrian Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of European Radiology. She serves as Section Editor of the Eurorad Abdominal Imaging Section and contributes to the Membership Committee of ESGAR. She currently holds a visiting professorship at KU Leuven, Belgium.

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Lena Unterrainer is a board-certified nuclear medicine physician and researcher specialised in molecular imaging and theranostics.

She currently serves as an attending physician at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich, where her clinical and scientific work focuses on translational theranostic concepts in oncology. Before coming to the Technical University of Munich, she worked at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, LMU Munich and held in 2025 a research fellowship as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Her research integrates molecular imaging, quantitative PET analysis, and the clinical implementation of novel radiopharmaceuticals to advance precision medicine in cancer therapy. She has received multiple national and international honours and holds a Master of Health and Business Administration. Through her interdisciplinary and international research, Dr. Unterrainer contributes to advancing the clinical translation of theranostic imaging strategies and integrating personalised molecular medicine into daily patient care.

Aina Venkatasamy is a senior radiologist at Université Paris Cité, in the Department of Radiology at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP Centre, France.

Her primary field of expertise is head and neck imaging, where she has developed extensive clinical and research experience. Dr. Venkatasamy serves as Fellow-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ESHNR) and actively contributes to the promotion of education and innovation in this field across Europe.

She also leads the national residency programme in head and neck imaging on behalf of the Collège des Enseignants de Radiologie de France (CERF). Her scientific interests focus on high-resolution micro-imaging of tissues and small structures (e.g., inner ear, cranial nerves) and their comprehensive integration through artificial intelligence.

Dr. Wintersperger is a professor of radiology at the University of Toronto's Department of Medical Imaging and serves as Director of MRI and MRI Safety at the Toronto Joint Department of Medical Imaging (UHN, SHS, and WCH).

He is also an adjunct professor of radiology at the University of Munich, where he serves as a senior consultant in cardiovascular imaging.

He earned his medical degree and completed radiology residency and fellowship training at the University of Munich. He received his doctorate (Dr. med.) in 1998 and Venia Legendi (PD Dr. med.; Habilitation/PhD equivalent) in 2007. Dr. Wintersperger holds Level III certifications in cardiac CT and MR from the German Roentgen Ray Society, European Board of Cardiovascular Imaging (EBCR), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI).

He has served in leadership and committee roles across major imaging societies, including the RSNA Cardiac Scientific Subcommittee and Radiographics Cardiac Panel, ISMRM Annual Meeting Program and Governance Committees, and the SCMR Clinical Trials Committee. He currently serves as Treasurer on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) and is a member of the ECR 2026 Cardiac Imaging Subcommittee.

Dr. Wintersperger's research focuses on non-invasive cardiovascular CT and MR imaging, with an emphasis on quantitative imaging, tissue characterisation, and accelerated imaging methods. He has authored over 200 PubMed-listed publications and regularly teaches and lectures at international radiology conferences, including the ECR and ESCR.