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Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Professor of Medicine and Electrical Engineering; Director of Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging; Director of Bioengineering

Technical University of Munich; Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen; Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Germany

Professor Vasilis Ntziachristos studied electrical engineering at Aristotle University in
Thessaloniki. Following his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the Department of Bioengineering at the
University of Pennsylvania, he was then appointed Assistant Professor and Director of the
Laboratory for Bio-Optics and Molecular Imaging at Harvard University and Massachusetts
General Hospital. Since 2007, he has served as Professor of Medicine and Electrical
Engineering and the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich and
Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich. Prof.
Ntziachristos is also currently Director of Bioengineering at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
and the Head of the Bioengineering Department at Helmholtz Munich. Professor Ntziachristos
is the founder of the journal Photoacoustics, regularly Chairs in international meetings and
councils and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Karl Heinz Beckurts
prize (2021), the Chaire Blaise Pascal (2019) from the Region Ile-de-France, the Gold Medal
from the Society for Molecular Imaging (2015), the Gottfried Leibnitz prize from the German
Research Foundation (2013), the Erwin Schrödinger Award (2012) and was named one of the
world’s top innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review
in 2004.