Keynote speaker

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Günther
Deputy Institute Director Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany.
Matthias Günther studied Physics at the University Heidelberg and did his PhD at the Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg on Arterial Spin Labeling development and applications. After receiving his PhD he joined Advanced MRI Technology, a company founded by David Feinberg in California. After three and a half years, Dr. Günther came back to Germany to found his own company in Heidelberg, mediri GmbH, offering (research) services for image-based clinical trials. He also continued his scientific career at the Universitätsmedizin Mannheim. After Habilitation in 2008, he became Professor at the University Bremen and joined Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen as part of the management board. He is now deputy institute director of Fraunhofer MEVIS with a joint professorship on MR-Physics. (Keywords: reconfigurable metamaterials to imporve MRI, Arterial Spin Labeling, hemodynamics, blood brain barrier)

Prof. Dr. Med., Phd, Christoffer Laustsen
Department of Clinical Medicine – The MR Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Christoffer Laustsen is a proffessor of translational MRI and the head of the MR research department at Aarhus University, Denmark. With over a decade of experience in X-nuclei NMR and MRI and in particular hyperpolarized 13C MRI and metabolic research. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and received notable accolades, such as the Lundbeck Young Investigator Award. (keywords: metabolic fingerprints of heart disease, hyperpolarized 13C MRI)