Academic positions

• Since 2013 Head, Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
• Since 2013 Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Since 2013 Associated Principal Investigator, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• 2006-2013 Director, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
• 2004-2013 Professor of Biomedical Imaging, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
• 1999-2004 Senior Physicist, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
• 1994-1999 Software Engineer / Advanced Systems Engineer / MR Advanced Applications Scientist, General Electric Medical Systems in cooperation with University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1992-1994 Engineer, General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• 1989-1991 Research Assistant, Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Further activities

• 2021-2022 Guest Associate Editor, “Frontiers in Physics”, Research Topic on Innovations in MR Hardware from Ultra-Low to Ultra-High Field
• 2019-2022 Member, Annual Meeting Program Committee, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2018-2020 Editorial Board, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2017-2022 President and Vice President, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik [German Society for Medical Physics] (DGMP)
• 2016 Co-Chair, ISMRM Workshop on Ultra High Field MRI: Technological Advances & Clinical Applications
• since 2013 Scientific Advisory Board, Der Radiologe
• 2013-2017 Governing Committee, High Field Systems & Applications Study Group, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2013 Guest Editor, Investigative Radiology Special Issue on Clinical Advances with 7 Tesla
• 2012-2018 Deputy Editor, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2010-2013 Board of Trustees, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2000-2010 Vice President for Research & Development and Safety Officer, MR-Innovation GmbH, Essen, Germany