Programme Team
for ECR 2026

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.

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 Hanover 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 focusses on impactful innovations in care and now hosts one of the largest research groups in Europe. He now serves as the 2nd 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.

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.

She was awarded the Rohan Williams Medal (Gold Medal) for the FRCR examination. 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 ESR President.

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.

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 NPJ Precision Oncology, Cancer Research Communications, and ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology boards, 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.

Internationally recognised for their contributions, Dr. Raquel Perez-Lopez was awarded the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) Young Investigator Award in 2018 and a CRIS Foundation Talent Award in 2020. As a member of the RECIST Working Group, she actively contributes to establishing global standards for cancer response assessment.

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.”

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.

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 the year 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. He serves as the Vice-Dean for Digitization at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen. 

Professor Nikolaou is President of the German Roentgen Ray Society (DRG, 2023-2025) as well as a member of the Executive Council of the European Society of Radiology, Chairperson of the ESR Digital, AI and Emerging Technologies Committee, Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), and Member of the International Society of Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R), among others. He has also received Honorary Memberships from the Chinese Society of Radiology and the Greek 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).

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. 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 is also a University Fellow in Teaching and Academic Development.

From 2017 to 2023, he was Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Professional Development) at 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 has held significant national and international research grants. He is vice president of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) and a past president (2017–2021) of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS), having sat on the Board since 2014. He is a past Chair of the EFRS Educational Wing, a network of 65 universities involved in radiographer education. He is a former Chair of the Radiographers Scientific Subcommittee for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) and a member of the ECR Postgraduate Educational Programme (PEP) Subcommittee of the Programme Planning Committee (PPC) for ECR 2020, ECR 2021, and ECR 2022. He returns to the ECR 2026 PEP as the ESMRMB nominee. In 2016, he was appointed Associate Editor (Europe) with Radiography (Elsevier) before being appointed Editor-in-Chief in January 2022.

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 is Acting Chairperson of the Medical Imaging Department at Mater Dei Hospital in Malta and visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. Dr. D'Anastasi undertook his radiology training at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital in Munich.

In 2013, he was awarded an ESOR Scholarship in oncologic imaging at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City. During and after completing his training in Munich, his main clinical and research focus was oncologic imaging. 

Dr. D'Anastasi has a strong interest in oncologic imaging education and served as the ESOI Education Committee Chair from 2017 to 2021, as ESOI Secretary from 2021 to 2023 and is ESOI President-elect since March 2023. He is the co-founder of the ESOI Webinars and co-organises yearly ESOI/EORTC workshops on assessing tumour response to treatment. He served on the ECR Oncologic Imaging Scientific Subcommittee from 2019 to 2021. 

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

Dr. D'Anastasi has been President of the Malta Association of Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine Physicians since March 2023. He has authored/co-authored over 70 publications and is a reviewer for several international radiological journals. He is internationally active and is regularly invited to deliver lectures/workshops and organise courses with a special focus on tumour response assessment.

Elena Drakonaki trained in radiology as a resident at the University Hospital of Heraklion and as a musculoskeletal and PET/CT fellow at the Oxford Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Churchill Cancer Centre.

She has been a visiting lecturer of anatomy at the European University Medical School in Cyprus and has worked as a radiology consultant in Greece and the UK.

She is the current Vice-President of the European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR) and the in-coming President in 2026-2027. She has served as an active member of the ESSR Intervention and Ultrasound Subcommittees and as the Chair of the Educational Committee with responsibility of managing the ESSR Diploma in MSK radiology (EDiMSK) for 3 years (2021-2024). She is also the vice-chair of the Hellenic Society of Skeletal Radiology and an active member of the International Skeletal Society (ISS). 

Professor Drakonaki has been a faculty member at several ESSR, ECR and Euroson meetings and in several musculoskeletal ultrasound courses, having delivered more than 100 invited lectures in meetings and workshops. She has contributed as author/co-author in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in the topic of musculoskeletal radiology and anatomy, including guidelines. Her special research and clinical interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound, elastography and intervention, sports imaging, imaging anatomy and MRI for thalassemia (PhD thesis) and sarcoma (PostDoc).

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.

Professor França is a radiology consultant at the ULS Santo António, researcher at the i3S- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde and invited full professor at ICBAS, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

She graduated from the University of Porto in 2002 and was board-certified in radiology in 2011. She obtained her PhD degree at the University of Porto in 2017, with distinction. 

Professor França's main research interests focus on imaging of liver tumours and diffuse liver diseases. She is the Vice-President of the Portuguese Radiological Society (SPRMN). She previously served as a member of the Board of the Portuguese College of Radiologists. She is an active fellow of the ESGAR and a member of the Education Committee, and a member of the ECR Programme Planning Committee since 2024. She is a member of the European Network of rare haematological diseases (EuroBloodNet) and an honorary member of the Sociedad Española de Diagnóstico por Imagen del Abdomen (SEDIA). She was also a member of the ESR EIBALL Subcommittee and ESR Education Subcommittee. She authored several papers and book chapters, and she has given more than 80 invited lectures, mainly on abdominal imaging.

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 Pediatric 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 is also the Head of the Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology.

Professor Panebianco has been a vital member of the several international scientific societies contributing significantly to the organisation's guidelines and educational initiatives, also 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, Vice-Chair of the ESUR Prostate MRI Working-Group and President of the SIRM Urogenital Radiology Section.

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

She 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, Professor Panebianco 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 cooperation between radiologists, oncologists, and urologists to ensure that innovations in imaging technology translate into improved patient care and outcomes.

Daniel Pinto dos Santos is a consultant radiologist and assistant professor of radiology at the University Hospital of Cologne and the University Hospital of Frankfurt, 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, he moved to his position at the University Hospital of Cologne. Since 2021, he moved his clinical focus to the University Hospital of Frankfurt while maintaining a lecturing and research position at the University Hospital of Cologne.

Professor Pinto dos Santos is the past chair of the Information Technology Committee of the German Radiological Society, vice-president of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, chair of the ESR's eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee and serves as Deputy Editor for European Radiology.

Helmut Prosch, MD, is an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

He serves as the Deputy Head of the Division of General and Paediatric Radiology and is the Section Chief of Thoracic Imaging. His research primarily focuses on the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer, as well as the application of deep learning in diagnosing diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. He is the President-Elect of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) and serves as the Deputy Editor of the journal European Radiology. He has published more than 220 articles, reviews, and book chapters.

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

His main field of interest is the non-invasive CT/MR imaging of cardiovascular disease, with a special focus on valvular and coronary artery imaging. He holds a PhD in this field from the Faculty of Medicine of Antwerp University.

Since 2017, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), and is currently its president. In 2019, he was ESCR Congress President. He's Past Chair of the Cardiovascular Section of the Belgian Society of Radiology. He serves on the Scientific Editorial Board of Insights Into Imaging, and is currently also section editor of the cardiovascular division for ESR Eurorad. 

Previously, he was a member and eventually chair of the Cardiac Scientific Subcommittee for the European Congress of Radiology in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Dr. Salgado is a member of the European Congress of Radiology programme team for the editions 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He's also part of the CORE team of the European Board of Radiology.

Dr. Salgado is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings for over a decade and has written several peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

David Laszlo Tarnoki is an associate professor, radiologist and twin researcher at the Medical Imaging Centre of Semmelweis University, as well as medical economist and health manager and centre head of the Oncologic Imaging and Invasive Diagnostic Center of the National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Twin Registry. 

Professor Tarnoki has given more than 500 international and domestic lectures. He has over 170 publications and has authored or co-authored 34 book chapters. He is a board member of the Hungarian Society of Radiologists and has been a 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 at Semmelweis University. 

Professor Tarnoki is a 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, 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. 

He was a member of the Scientific Subcommittee for ECR 2022 and 2023 congresses and Scientific Subcommittee Chairperson for ECR 2024. He is a member of the ECR 2026 Programme Planning Committee and part of the Postgraduate Educational and Scientific Programme (PEP/SP) Subcommittee.

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, Professor Zackrisson did a post doc 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. Applications of artificial intelligence in screening, image-based risk prediction models, 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 breast editor for Acta Radiologica and has been engaged in teaching activities at different levels all her career, including programme planning committees and sub-committee work for ECR.
Professor Zackrisson is author of over 180 journal papers and several book chapters. She is president of the Swedish Society of Breast Radiology and board member of the European Society of Breast Imaging. 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.

Dr. Beale is currently a senior head and neck radiologist at University College Hospital in London, UK.

He was President of the BSHNI 2010-2012, Congress President of the ESHNR BSHNI BSDMFR meeting in London, UK, in 2018, Chairman of the Head and Neck Scientific subcommittee ECR 2020 and current President of ESHNR.

Dr. Beale is a great enthusiast for education in the field of head and neck radiology and, on a national and international level, has given over 300 lectures in diverse areas of head and neck radiology. He is particularly interested in sinonasal and temporal bone imaging and head and neck ultrasound, helping run workshop-style courses with a hands-on practical element.

Dr. Beale has been an MSC Imaging Coordinator, Lecturer and Examiner in audiovestibular medicine and on the editorial board or reviewer for a number of head and neck journals (both radiology and surgery).

Maximilian de Bucourt is the Head of Interventional Radiology at Campus Benjamin Franklin and serves as Deputy Head of the Interventional Radiology Section at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Holding doctorate degrees in medicine and economics, as well as PhD degrees in radiology and health economics, his research bridges clinical innovation, imaging science, and health systems. His academic interests include endovascular simulation, visceral artery interventions, embolisation models, materials development, and pulmonary embolism treatment with large-bore aspiration catheters, as well as workflow integration of angiography systems, quality management, and radiation dose reduction.

At Charité, Dr. de Bucourt oversees the radiology teaching curriculum, coordinating weekly lectures across three campuses for around 100 radiology residents. Delivered by more than 50 board-certified radiologists, the programme covers over 100 topics fundamental to board certification in Germany. He is also actively engaged in teleradiology coordination across two of the three Charité campuses.

At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), he has served as ECR Cube Programme Coordinator since its inception 2018. In addition, he contributes at the European level at refining the EU Medical Device Regulation, fostering collaboration across multiple medical specialties to enhance patient safety and innovation.

He holds specialised interventional radiology certifications from both the German (DeGIR II A–D) and European (EBIR) boards and is a CIRSE Fellow. He is an active member of ESR, DRG, DeGIR, and CIRSE. Dr. de Bucourt has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and 44 book chapters, reviewed for more than 20 journals, and delivered over 270 invited lectures worldwide.

Dr. Gennaro D'Anna is a neuroradiologist at Centro Diagnostico Italiano (CDI), Milan, Italy.

He worked at the Neuroimaging Unit of Legnano Hospital, ASST Ovest Milanese, in Legnano, Milan, Italy, and the Neuroradiology Unit of San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza, in Monza, Italy. 

In September 2022, Dr. D'Anna obtained the European Diploma in Neuroradiology from the European Board of Neuroradiology. His clinical activity covers almost all adult neuroradiology, with a focus on degenerative spine pathology, brain tumours, and demyelinating diseases. Moreover, he developed an interest in artificial intelligence and radiomics.

Dr. England is a senior lecturer in diagnostic radiography in the Discipline of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy at the University College Cork, Ireland, where he is the MSc research coordinator for diagnostic radiography and radiation therapy and teaches across a range of under- and postgraduate courses.

Dr. England's research interests include digital radiography, computed tomography (CT), interventional radiology, and dose optimisation.

He was previously elected Chair of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS) Educational Wing, having been a member of the EFRS Educational Wing since 2015, a network of 66 educational institutions. He is an Executive Board member of the EFRS and was appointed President in November 2022.

Dr. England is a former member of the United Kingdom Society and College of Radiographers' Research Committee and former Chair of the Radiographers Scientific Subcommittee for ECR.

He has delivered over 100 conference presentations, contributed to over 100 journal articles, and has held significant national and international research grants.

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.

Professor Thomas Fischer is Deputy Chair of the Department of Radiology, Head of the Interdisciplinary Ultrasound Centre, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where he also founded the Ultrasound Research Laboratory.

He has a profound clinical and scientific interest in all aspects of medical ultrasound. With a research focus on breast imaging, ultrasound contrast media, US/CT-MRI image fusion, rheumatic diseases, and prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, Professor Fischer has made important contributions to the development and improvement of new ultrasound techniques ranging from elastography and image fusion to ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy.

Professor Fischer has worked in ultrasound clinical research over many years in close cooperation with other clinical disciplines such as internal medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, urology and nephrology. He has published extensively in the field and is a renowned speaker at international conferences. His current position within the ESR is Chairperson of the Ultrasound Quality and Standards Subcommittee.

Marco Francone is a full professor of radiology and director of the residency programme at Humanitas University in Milan, Italy.

For the past ten years, he has been frequently invited to lecture at major radiological and cardiological conferences such as the ESOR, SCMR, ESCR, CIRSE, RSNA, and ECR.

He served as cardiac subcommittee chairperson at ECR 2020 after being consecutively involved as a subcommittee member and was a member of the PPC for ECR 2024. Professor Francone has also been involved in the RTF Quiz's organisation in the ECR's last three editions. At RSNA, he lectured at refresher courses for five consecutive years. Moreover, he was a radiographic panellist and Educational Exhibit Awards Committee member.

His research is dedicated to cardiovascular imaging with CT and MR, explicitly focusing on coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathies. He authored more than 180 indexed papers with an impact greater than 900. He was recently elected vice president of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology. He has previously been on the board of trustees of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and acted as Past President of the Italian College of Cardiac Radiology.

Professor Francone is active in national and international imaging societies. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of European Radiology (as cardiac imaging section chief), International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, and Radiologia Medica.

Professor Francone seeks to advance cardiovascular imaging technology and educate physicians in its use to provide optimal outcomes for our patients. He strongly advocates fruitful cooperation between radiologists, cardiologists and physicists towards this goal.

Dr. Caterina Giannitto is an assistant professor of radiology at Humanitas University and Senior Radiologist at Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

She is Vice-President of the Head and Neck Section of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM) and sits on the Editorial Board of European Radiology Experimental. She is also a reviewer for Radiology, and Editorial Board Member of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging and Frontiers in Oncology, as well as Junior Editor for the Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment.

With over a decade of experience, Dr. Giannitto is internationally recognised for her expertise in advanced CT, intraoperative and functional MRI, and radiomics in head and neck cancer imaging. After graduating cum laude in medicine from the University of Messina, she completed her radiology residency at the University of Milan and trained at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Her research interests include AI-powered imaging, radiomics, imaging biomarkers, and the integration of imaging in precision oncology and tumour board decision-making. She is particularly engaged in educational innovation and ethical compliance in diagnostic radiology. Dr. Giannitto is actively involved in international research projects such as EORTC 1420 and NANORAY-312.

She regularly lectures in postgraduate courses and has been invited to speak at, and organise, national and international radiology congresses. She is also the founder and President of Le Perle di Lunia, a non-profit scientific and advocacy association supporting women affected by head and neck cancer through education, awareness, and empowerment initiatives. 

Professor Ferdia Gallagher is Head of the Radiology Department at the University of Cambridge, an Honorary Consultant Radiologist, and a Cancer Research UK Senior Research Fellow.

He is particularly interested in translating new imaging methods to improve patient survival in oncology. He obtained his undergraduate medical degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, returning to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to train as a radiologist. He subsequently undertook a PhD in molecular imaging before taking up a position as an academic radiologist interested in oncological imaging. Professor Gallagher leads the Clinical Molecular Imaging Group and the preclinical imaging facility on the Cambridge Biomedical campus. His research group develops new imaging techniques for the early detection of cancer and response to therapy, particularly using MRI, and has pioneered novel methods to image tumour metabolism. Professor Gallagher contributes widely to undergraduate and postgraduate education and has been involved for many years with the ESR, ECR and ESHI.

Vicky Goh is professor of cancer imaging at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals and Head of Department of Cancer Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London.

She focusses on improving cancer care and patient outcomes through imaging innovation and artificial intelligence.

She has a longstanding interest in education and research workforce development. Professor Goh is currently Senior Deputy Editor for Radiology, on the Standing Board and Chair of the Imaging Subcommittee of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours Programme, and member of the European School of Radiology Steering Committee. She is the past Chair of the Royal College of Radiologists' Academic Committee and Workforce Lead of the National Institute of Health and Care Research Imaging Group. She has also served as President of the European Society of Oncologic Imaging and chaired the Undergraduate Education Subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology.

Apostolos Karantanas is professor of radiology at the Medical School University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging at the Heraklion University Hospital and affiliated researcher at the Computational BioMedicine Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, in Heraklion, Greece.

His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders, forensic radiology, and AI in medical imaging and has been involved in many European research projects.

Professor Karantanas is Past President of European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Past President and founding member of the Hellenic Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology, past member of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Radiology, European School of Radiology Programme Planning Committee, Educational Committee and Research Committee of the European Society of Radiology, and Past President of the Hellenic College of Radiology. He has been a Visiting Professor in three national and two European universities and has been chairing the Subspecialties and Allied Sciences Committee of the European Society of Radiology.

Professor Karantanas has given more than 670 invited lectures in 50 countries and is a regular faculty member at the ECR, ESSR, IDKD, ISS, ESOR and Erasmus Courses in musculoskeletal MRI. He is the author of more than 350 publications in peer review journals (~9.400 citations in Google Scholar, h-index 52, i10-index 185), seven books (four international), and 85 chapters in books. He is a board member of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission and Chair of the Radiology Committee, Central Board of Health, Ministry of Health.

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.

Professor Lim is head of ultrasound at Charing Cross Hospital, London and specialist areas include advancing technologies of ultrasound and use of novel techniques in functionally assessing disease processes with particular respect to breast, oncological and musculoskeletal imaging.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has recently edited a textbook on Liver Ultrasound: From Basics to Advanced Applications.

He is also an editor of the European Journal of Ultrasound, Ultrasound International Open Journal and an associate editor of Clinical Radiology and Ultrasound journals.

Adrian is the immediate past President of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (2022-2024) and an Executive Board member of EFSUMB. He has also served on the Ultrasound Subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology (2021-2024).

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 ESR. He is a member of the Executive Council of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) and 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 given more than 450 invited lectures and has authored and co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Martin Mack is a radiology professor and a partner at "Radiologie München". 

He is a specialist in musculoskeletal radiology, head and neck radiology, and oncologic imaging, as well as interventional radiology.

Professor Mack is an enthusiastic academic teacher with more than 900 invited lectures focusing on head and neck radiology, musculoskeletal radiology and oncologic imaging. He is the Past President of ESHNR and the Congress President of the "Deutscher Röntgenkongress" 2025. Professor Mack is the chairman of the musculoskeletal radiology working group of the German Roentgen Society. He is serving as the radiologist of the FC Bayern Munich football club.

Silvia Magnaldi is a radiologist with 40 years of experience.

She received her medical degree from the University of Trieste and completed her residency at the Department of Radiology of the University of Trieste. In 1990, she was a fellow of the Neuroradiology Division of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA).

From 1983 until 1995, her clinical work and research were dedicated to neuroradiology, and she published several papers in this field. From 1996 until 2005, her clinical work was focused on oncologic, pelvic and skeletal radiology. Since 2000 her main interest has been pelvic imaging, and she has been organising courses on this topic since 2014.

From 1986 until 1995, Dr. Magnaldi was a clinical researcher at the Radiology Department of the University of Trieste. She served as an attending radiologist in several hospitals and was Director and Chief Department, with budget (and result) responsibility, of the Radiology Units in Bergamo (1996-1997), Brescia (2011-2017) and Pordenone (2017-2020). From 2009 until 2011, Dr. Magnaldi worked in the Radiology Department of the University of Vienna, where she won the "Teacher of the Year" award in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Since 2020 she has been a freelance radiologist. Dr. Magnaldi has been a moderator, speaker and organiser in several national and international courses and conferences. She is President of the Contrast Media Section of the Italian Radiological Society (SIRM) in 2023 and 2024. She has a personal website (www.silviamagnaldi.com).

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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 stayed on for a year at the Haukeland University Hospital in the Department of Thoracic Radiology.

Since 2008, Dr. Parkar has worked as a general radiologist with a particular interest in musculoskeletal imaging, chest imaging, and cardiac CT imaging. She is actively involved in teaching medical students from the University of Bergen and researching musculoskeletal and chest 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 has served 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 also serves on committees in the International Skeletal Society.

Valérie Vilgrain is a radiologist in the Department of Radiology at the University Beaujon Hospital and professor of radiology at the University of Paris Cité, France.

Her major research interests are diagnostic and interventional imaging of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. 

Professor Vilgrain is a member of several international and national societies, such as the European Society of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, European Society of Gastro Abdominal Radiology, European Association for the Study of Liver, French Radiological Society, and International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology. She was Chairperson of the Education Programme Committee of the SFR annual meeting from 2000-2008 and Vice-Chairperson of the French Society from 2010 to 2014. She chaired the RSNA Regional Committee for Europe (2015-2018). She is an ESGAR Executive Committee member and the Scientific Director of the European School of Radiology since March 2018 and until March 2025. She has been a corresponding French Academy of Medicine member since 2023.

Professor Vilgrain has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers (h-index > 80) and has been a principal investigator of several large multicentre clinical trials, including the SARAH trial. Since 2012, she has participated in the creation of many European guidelines, such as for liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma, management of patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases, management of benign liver tumours, management of hepatocellular carcinoma, consensus statement on liver MR imaging and clinical use of liver-specific contrast agents, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, cystic liver lesions, vascular liver diseases, and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

She has served on the Editorial Board of Radiology (Associate Editor 2007-2012, consultant to Editor 2012-2017) and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hepatology Reports and Abdominal Radiology. She is a reviewer for several radiological journals: Radiology, European Radiology, AJR, European Journal of Radiology, and clinical journals: Gut, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and European Journal of Cancer.

Since 2015, she has been PI or co-PI of several academic or academic/industry projects, such as HECAM (HEpatocellular CArcinoma Multi-technological), RIHDO (Radiomics and Integration of Heterogenous Data in Oncology), QUID-NASH (Quantitative imaging in Diabetes–NASH), AIDReAM (AI in medical imaging), and RHU OPERANDI (Optimisation and ImProved Efficacy of internal RAdiatioN therapy in Digestive cancers by Imagomics) with a total funding of 52,6 million of Euros.

Dr. Thomas Wagner is a nuclear medicine physician with interests in PET-CT and how to improve the quality of radiological reports.

Peter Beddy is a consultant radiologist and Clinical Director of the Department of Radiology in St James's Hospital, Dublin and associate professor of radiology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

He completed his radiology residency in Ireland before fellowship training in Cambridge, UK and Boston, USA. He has previously served on the Scientific Committee of ESTI and the Chest Subcommittee for ECR. His clinical and research interest primarily focuses on lung cancer imaging and intervention.

Professor Sotirios Bisdas serves as a consultant neuroradiologist at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, where he leads the MRI and clinical services.

He holds the position of associate professor of neuroradiology at University College London, professor of radiology at the University of Tübingen, and adjunct professor of neuroradiology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas. Additionally, he is an honorary associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Messina. Professor Bisdas possesses an MSc in advanced oncology and a PhD in biomedical engineering and imaging, focusing on modelling perfusion in brain tumours.

He is a Fellow of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (FESHNR), a member of the European Board of Neuroradiology, and member of the ESNR Head and Neck Subcommittee. Professionally, he is the Secretary of the European Society of Medical Imaging and Informatics and previously served for a decade on the ESHNR Executive Committee. He is a chief section editor for several radiological journals and has received numerous accolades.

His clinical and academic involvement spans advanced and metabolic MRI, MR-PET imaging, intraoperative MR imaging, and ultra-high-field brain MRI spectroscopy in neuro-oncology, neurodegeneration, and brain injury, as well as AI applications in clinical imaging. He actively collaborates with scientists in clinical and basic neuroimaging research, contributing to the translation of neuroscience discoveries into treatments for neurological diseases. His research achievements place him among the top 15% of the most influential researchers in medicine.

Charlotte de Lange received her medical degree from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

She trained in radiology and paediatric radiology at Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, where she accepted a position as a consultant in paediatric radiology in 2001. She directed the non-invasive diagnostic imaging of congenital heart disease in children and adults at Oslo University Hospital. In 2019, she returned to Sweden and joined Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, as a senior consultant in paediatric radiology and the Head of Paediatric and Cardiovascular MR Unit.

Congenital heart disease in children and adults, evaluated with CT and MRI, has been her main clinical and research interest after defending her doctoral thesis in experimental animal research on perinatal hypoxic ischaemic injury. Since 2022, she has been assigned associate professor in paediatric radiology at the University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on new ultrasound and MR techniques in blood flow and tissue characterisation of the paediatric heart and liver, chronic liver disease, longitudinal follow-up in patients with aortic and pulmonary valve disease, tetralogy of Fallot, and single ventricle physiology.

Johann Baptist Dormagen is the Head of the Section of Abdominal Imaging at the Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Norway.

He received his medical degree at the University of Homburg, Saarland in Germany in 1998. Dr. Dormagen carried out his residency at the Department of Radiology at Hedmark Central Hospital, and at Oslo University Hospital where he also received his PhD on imaging of splenic and pelvic trauma in 2012. 

His research and clinical efforts involve CT protocol optimisation, trauma and abdominal emergency radiology. 

Dr. Dormagen is an active lecturer for abdominal and trauma imaging for the national residency courses in Norway. Currently, he acts as Chair of the Nordic Forum for Trauma and Emergency Radiology. He has broad experience as course director for the NORDTER trauma and emergency courses and has been member of the ECR Abdominal and Gastrointestinal and Emergency Imaging Subcommittees at several occasions. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the Journal "Emergency Radiology".

Chiara Giraudo is an assistant professor and clinical radiologist at the University of Padova in Italy, where she also trained in radiology.

During her residency, she has been visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego under the supervision of Professor Donald Resnick and afterwards did an observership at the Musculoskeletal Radiology Unit of the Medical University of Vienna. After the residency, she completed her PhD in medical physics at the Center of Excellence for MR Research of the Medical University of Vienna with a thesis on the application of diffusion tensor imaging on muscles at 3 and 7T. 

During the time in Vienna, she also had the chance to collaborate on several PET/MR projects and currently works also on musculoskeletal hybrid imaging (PET/CT and PET/MR). Professor Giraudo served as Chair of the Arthritis Subcommittee of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) from June 2021 to June 2024. Her main clinical and research focus is on rheumatological and oncological musculoskeletal imaging in adults and children, and she authored and co-authored more than 160 articles published on national and international peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters.

Dr. Fernando Gómez Muñoz completed residency training in radiology at Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia (2005–2009).

His first contact with interventional oncology was at the Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux (2008). Early in his career, he practiced as an interventional radiologist at leading institutions, including Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (2009) and Hospital Universitari Bellvitge (2009–2010), before returning to La Fe (2011–2013) where he also served as IR Research Coordinator for the GIBI 2^30 Research Group.

In 2012, Dr. Gómez Muñoz was an honorary consultant in pediatric interventional radiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Later, he then led the Interventional Oncology Unit at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu-Hospital Clinic, Barcelona (2013–2022). Since 2017, he has served as Director of Interventional Radiology at Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-Netherlands Kanker Instituut, Amsterdam, transitioning to consultant in 2024 while concurrently practicing at La Fe, Valencia (2023–present).

A CIRSE Fellow since 2020, he contributes to multiple professional boards and task forces, including the CIRSE Task Force for Artificial Intelligence in IR (co-coordinator, 2022–present) and the CIRSE Research Committee (2022–present). He is a member of the SERVEI Scientific Advisory Board (2021–present) and CIRSE NexT Research Advisory Board (2022–present). Dr. Gómez Muñoz actively participates in shaping interventional radiology education and practice through leadership roles in CIRSE committees, including ECIO SPC (2023–present) and the CIRSE Online Education Subcommittee (2024–present).

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Ora Israel is emeritus professor of imaging at the Rappaport School of Medicine, the Technion, in Haifa, Israel.

In 2018, she retired from her 18-years long position as Director of Nuclear Medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus. Over more than four decades, her main scientific interests included multimodality tumour imaging, in vivo radionuclide quantitation, and imaging of infection and inflammation.

Professor Israel has been involved in the development of hybrid imaging, SPECT/CT and PET/CT, since its beginnings in the late 1990s and in recent decades in developing guidelines for its clinical implementation. She is the author of four textbooks on hybrid imaging and over 220 scientific articles. In 2018, she was elected Fellow of the SNMMI (USA), the first, and so far single, non-North American to receive this honor. In 2020, she received the Honorary Membership of the EANM. She was also awarded the 2020 General Council in Nuclear Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2021 Correlative Imaging Barry Siegel Lectureship of the SNMMI.

Agnieszka Kuchcinska is a medical physics expert (MPE) and radiation protection expert (RPE) with almost 20 years of experience.

She started her career in 2006 at the first company in Poland who provide Acceptance QA in radiology. In 2008, she has founded her own SHEDAR Testing Laboratory, where she has implemented ISO 17025 standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, cooperated with over 100 healthcare centers, being responsible for QC testing of over 250 different devices spanning all x-ray imaging modalities. She became an expert in regulatory measurements, traceability, QC methodology development and accreditation, risk management and medical device law including ISO 13485.

She was one of only two people who participated in all twelve modules of EUTEMPE-RX Project (2014-2016) to achieve MPE status in D&IR and reported her experience during EUTEMPE-RX mid-term workshop in Sofia (2015). She gave memorable presentation during the 2nd Congress of Medical Physics in Athens (2016) with a support of more than 100 people across Europe for mutual recognition of MPE status.

Since 2018, she has started to cooperate as independent MPE which gave her a broader look including radiotherapy and nuclear medicine. She was responsible for SBRT and SRS at radiotherapy centre, optimisation of radiotherapy of pregnant patients and PET-CT examination of pregnant patients at the National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, and advised in optimisation of recurrent exposure series of oncologic paediatric patients at Mother and Child Institute, Warsaw, and worked on the optimisation and clinical audits in interventional radiology and cardiology at 4th Military Hospital in Wrocław.

Wolfgang Kunz is a consultant radiologist and professor of radiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, with a particular interest in oncologic imaging, clinical trial imaging and health economics.

He graduated in medicine from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) and completed his radiology training at the university hospital. He has been active in the European Society of Oncologic Imaging for several years as part of the Young Radiologists Committee, the Research Committee, and the Education Committee. Since 2018, he has led the oncologic imaging division at LMU and the oncologic imaging research group. His scientific interests include the imaging of lymphoma, sarcoma, and melanoma. As head of clinical trial imaging at LMU Munich, he is involved in criteria-based reporting for investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored trials.

His international activity includes European networks and collaborations, including the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), where he has been heading and contributing to consensus statements and guidelines. His role as chair of the EORTC Imaging Group subcommittee on quality control enables him to improve imaging within clinical trials and be involved in designing imaging protocols in new clinical trials. He has published more than 180 articles, reviews, and book chapters. Professor Kunz also serves as a reviewer for Radiology, European Radiology, the European Journal of Cancer, and the Journal of Immunotherapy of Cancer.

Dr. Maja Pirnat is a respected radiologist at the University Clinical Center in Maribor, Slovenia, where she plays a key role in clinical practice, research, and education.

Renowned for her dedication to teaching, she is recognised as an outstanding educator and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences across Europe and beyond.

Dr. Pirnat is the co-founder and lead organiser of the School of Cardiac Diagnostics, a highly regarded educational event held annually in Slovenia, which will celebrate its 9th edition in 2025. She is also a board member of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), contributing actively to the advancement of cardiac imaging across Europe.

Her academic work includes a PhD focused on the comparison of myocardial viability assessment on MRI with the degree of coronary collaterals evaluated through angiography, reflecting her deep expertise in ischaemic cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular imaging and research.

Professor Philippe Puech is the head of the Genitourinary and Women's Imaging Radiology Departments in Lille, France.

He graduated in Lyon and joined the Lille University Hospital in 2002. Professor Puech's research projects, developed in the U1189 laboratory (Onco-Thai) are focused on signal processing, MR imaging, development of diagnostic and new minimally invasive therapeutic options (target biopsies, focal treatment), prostate and genitourinary imaging, endometriosis imaging, reporting, quality and team management.His doctoral thesis in biostatistics and medical informatics, combined with his passion for coding allowed him to elaborate innovative tools for research (signal processing, CAD) and teaching (notably e-Learnings, and iPads), directly linked with his specialty.He is a member of ESUR (European Society of Urogenital Radiology) and Past Chairperson of its prostate group, a member of the SIGU Council (Société d’Imagerie Génito-Urinaire), of the SFR and ESR.Professor Puech participates to numerous working groups, congresses and conferences for the last 20 years. He is author of 156 publications indexed in international and national journals, achieving 8400 citations, and a h-index of 34.

Ana Ramos is a professor of radiology and chairs the Department of Neuroradiology at the Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain.

She obtained her medical degree at Cantabria University, became a board-certified radiologist in Madrid, and undertook fellowship training in Chicago at Loyola University.

She joined the neuroradiology diagnostic and interventional radiology section at University Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain, and was appointed chairman of neuroradiology in 2014.She is a radiology professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 2004.

Her clinical expertise includes imaging in neurooncology, neurodegenerative diseases, neurovascular pathology, and head injury with a strong tertiary multidisciplinary activity in the respective fields.

She serves in several societies and task forces: Past President of the Spanish Society of Neuroradiology, Treasurer of the SILAN (Sociedad iberolatina de Neuroradiologia), and a member of the Diagnostic Committee of the European Society of Neuroradiology. She will be the President of the European Society of Neuroradiology.

Professor Maxime Ronot is Head of the Department of Medical Imaging at Beaujon University Hospital in Clichy and is affiliated with the Université Paris Cité in Paris, France.

He specialises in abdominal imaging and focuses on liver and pancreas diseases and tumours, interventional abdominal oncology, and abdominal vascular diseases. 

He holds memberships in prominent French and European radiology societies, including the French and European Societies of Radiology and the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR). He is a member of the LI-RADS Steering Committee. In this capacity, he chairs the LI-RADS benign liver lesions group and contributes to the LI-RADS AI and cholangiocarcinoma groups and the CIRSE AI task force.

Professor Ronot has authored or co-authored over 380 articles and books. Furthermore, he serves as the President of the French National Ethics Committee for Medical Imaging Research.

Cláudia Sá dos Reis is a full professor and dean of Radiologic Medical Imaging Technology Department at HESAV (Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud), Switzerland.

She has a BSc(Hons) in Radiography, a MSc in socio-organisational intervention in the field of health with a specialisation in health and management, a PhD in biomedical engineering, which have enabled her to develop different skills and expertise in health by combining different perspectives.

Her research expertise focuses on optimising radiographers' practices covering mainly two pillars, technology and patient-centred care in different domains - plain radiography, mammography, computed tomography, fluoroscopy, AI. The link between practice and education has always been at the core of her research projects. She has obtained external funding for research and teaching projects (ERASMUS+, FCT, Domaine Santé – CS/HES-SO).

She is an author/co-author of more than 50 scientific papers, conference presentations and book chapters. She has worked in various countries such as Portugal (ESTeSL/IPL), Australia (Curtin University), and also in Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa. Her participation in several Summer University Intensive Research Programmes (OPTIMAX) across Europe has also helped her to develop an international network for teaching and research projects. With a background in radiography, she practiced her profession for seven years in different clinical settings (public and private hospitals), performing plain radiography, CT scans, mammography, fluoroscopy-guided exams (digestive and urological), interventional, and densitometry. During this period, she was also a clinical training tutor for radiography students in the hospital, marking the beginning of her collaboration with the academic field.

Rüdiger Schernthaner, MD MBA serves as the Head of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Clinic Landstraße, Vienna Healthcare Group, Austria and is a passionate interventional radiologist.

Before joining the Vienna Healthcare Group, he was an associate professor for radiology at the Medical University of Vienna. His research primarily focuses on cardiovascular imaging and interventional oncology, with a special interest in advanced imaging techniques and image postprocessing. He has published more than 70 articles, reviews, and book chapters. Dr. Schernthaner is an active reviewer for several journals, including European Radiology.

Dr. Edith Vassallo is a consultant radiologist with a special interest in head and neck imaging at Mater Dei Hospital, Malta.

She received her medical degree from the University of Malta in 2008. After completing her pre-specialist radiology training in 2015, she embarked on two fellowships in head and neck imaging at the University of Brescia and Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, Italy, and AZ Sint Jan Hospital in Bruges, Belgium. 

Her clinical work is focused on oncologic imaging with particular emphasis on head and neck oncology. She also has a special interest in otology and skull base imaging.

Dr. Vassallo is an active member of the Maltese Association of Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine Physicians (MARNMP) and European Society of Radiology (ESR). She holds a position as fellow and board member of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ESHNR) and is also a member of its Education Committee. She currently serves as chair of the ESR Undergraduate Education Subcommittee.

In 2017, she was local organiser of the ESMRMB Advanced Head & Neck MR Imaging Course held in Malta. In 2023, she was Congress President of the ESHNR 2023 35th Annual Meeting and Refresher Course held in Malta. 

Dr. Vassallo was a scientific subcommittee member for ECR 2021, scientific subcommittee reviewer for ECR 2022, Head and Neck Scientific Subcommittee member for ECR 2023 and member of the Programme Planning Committee for ECR 2024. She is Chairperson of the Head and Neck Scientific Subcommittee for ECR 2026. 

Dr. Vassallo is a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta where she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.