About us

Minerva Becker is Professor of Radiology and Head of the Imaging Unit of Head and Neck and Maxillofacial Radiology, Diagnostic Department, at the University Hospitals of Geneva.

Professor Becker’s clinical expertise and main fields of research include head and neck and maxillo-facial imaging. Her track record is mainly in head and neck oncology research including hybrid and multiparametric imaging, and texture analysis towards a personalized treatment approach. Further research fields include imaging of the salivary glands, orbit, and skull base.

Professor Becker has received over 30 international and national scientific awards and prizes and has obtained several research grants supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is the author of over 200 scientific publications and is a co-editor of Valvassouri's Head and Neck Imaging. She is a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals and participates equally as an external expert in international and national juries for university nominations and promotions.

Professor Becker is an enthusiastic teacher with over 350 invited lectures at international and national meetings and was awarded the 2015 ESOR Best Teacher Award. As Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ESHNR), she oversaw the European training curriculum and subspecialty diploma in head and neck radiology. She is the Past-President of the ESHNR and an honorary member of the European Laryngological Society.

Between March 2021 and July 2023, Professor Becker served as Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society of Radiology (ESR).

Mathias Prokop is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of Medical Imaging at RadboudUMC in Nijmegen, 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. He published more than 500 scientific articles and is a prolific speaker at international conferences. 

His department in Nijmegen focusses on impactful innovations in care and now hosts one of the largest research groups in Europe. Together with other hospitals in the Netherlands he aims to implement AI-supported cross-hospital workflows and integrated care concepts. His goal is to build a blueprint for healthcare in which work remains satisfying and care affordable. As president of Dutch Society of Radiology, he initiated a strategic re-orientation of Radiology away from pure reporting to better positioning it within future healthcare environments. He considers meaningful use of AI a necessary enabling factor in this process.

Marie-Pierre Revel is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Radiology, Cochin Hospital Paris Cité University, Paris, France.

Professor Revel's main clinical and research interests are thoracic imaging and oncology imaging, more specifically lung cancer and its screening, thromboembolic disease, particularly pulmonary embolism in the context of pregnancy and postpartum, and the applications of artificial intelligence in thoracic imaging. In France, she coordinates the CASCADE study (Lung Cancer Screening in French women using low-dose CT and Artificial intelligence for DEtection) and is responsible for improving knowledge and female participation in lung cancer screening within the SOLACE consortium, funded by the EU4health program.

Professor Revel was president of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) in 2019. She was made an honorary member of ESTI at the Oxford Congress in 2022. She chairs the society's Lung Cancer Screening Committee. She is also a member of the French Society of Radiology and of the Fleischner society.

Professor Revel Dubois is an enthusiastic teacher who has given over 300 invited lectures at national and international conferences. She is a member of the ESOR Steering Committee. She received the EuroMinnies 2023 Most Effective Radiology Educator Award at ECR 2023, and will receive the Korean Society of Radiology -Honorary Educator Award at the 79th Korean Congress of Radiology (KCR 2023), in Seoul in September 2023.

She has been an ECR faculty member since 2011, and has served as a member or chair of the ECR Chest Subcommittee and the ECR Program Planning Committee.

Professor Revel is a section editor for the European Journal of Radiology and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals. She is the author of over 160 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (index H 40).

Dr. Emanuele Neri is full Professor of Radiology at the University of Pisa, Italy, Chair of the Academic Unit of Radiology and of the Radiology Residency program. He also served as Dean of the Medical School (2023-2025).

His major research interests are Imaging informatics and Oncologic imaging with special interest on the development of imaging biomarkers, imaging biobanks and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Neri is member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) since its foundation, where he served as chair of the ECR Computer Application Committee, chair of the Quality, Safety and Standards Committee, and chair of the eHealth and informatics subcommittee. He is member of the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM), where he served as delegate for international affairs, and 30 years member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) where he served as member of the Radiology Informatics Committee.

Dr. Neri is Past President of the European Society of Oncologic Imaging (ESOI), and Past President, Honorary member and founder of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII). He is also member of the European Society of Emergency Radiology (ESER) and of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR).

He is local investigator of several EU-funded research projects with special focus on image processing, development of imaging biomarkers, imaging biobanks and artificial intelligence: EUCAIM (European Federation for Cancer Images), EucanImage (Towards a European cancer imaging platform for enhanced Artificial Intelligence in oncology), CHAIMELEON (Accelerating the lab to market transition of AI tools for cancer management), Procancer-I (An AI Platform integrating imaging data and models, supporting precision care through prostate cancer’s continuum), PRIMAGE (PRedictive In-silico Multiscale Analytics to support cancer personalized diaGnosis and prognosis, Empowered by imaging biomarkers).

Dr. Neri is consultant to the editor of the journal Radiology artificial intelligence, member of the scientific editorial board of La Radiologia Medica and European Radiology experimental, Associate editor of Future Oncology.

Andrea Rockall is Clinical Chair in Radiology at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with clinical expertise in genito-urinary imaging.

After graduating from medical school at King's College London, and completion of MRCP (internal medicine), she 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 as Senior Lecturer 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 as Clinical Chair of Radiology, Imperial College London. She has served as Chair of the Female Pelvic Imaging group of ESUR, member of ORADS steering committee, Chair of the ESR National Societies Committee and is currently ESR President.

Professor Rockall's special interests are in genitourinary cancer, image-based clinical trials, and machine-learning applications in radiology, being Chief Investigator on CRUK and NIHR funded studies in these areas. She contributes widely to undergraduate, postgraduate, and specialist radiology education and is passionate about sustainability in healthcare.

Professor Marco Francone is Full Professor and Chairman of Radiology at the School of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome – Sant’Andrea Hospital, and Chair of the Radiology Residency Program at Sapienza University of Rome. He also serves as Chair of the ESR Communication & Interdisciplinary Affairs Committee (CIAC), following his election in January 2025.

He obtained his MD at Sapienza University of Rome and completed his training in Radiology at the same institution. He also holds a PhD in Cardiothoracic Imaging and an MSc in Advanced MR Principles.

Prof. Francone’s main clinical and research interests are cardiovascular imaging with CT and MR, with a particular focus on coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and cardiomyopathies. His research focuses on advanced cardiac imaging, tissue characterization, and the clinical integration of innovative technologies, including spectral and photon-counting CT and AI-based approaches. He collaborates with multiple national and international centers and has coordinated or contributed to several multicenter research projects and competitively funded grants.

He has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, has contributed to several book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals, including European Radiology (Cardiac Imaging Section Chief) and as Deputy Editor for the newly founded European Radiology Cardiovascular & Thoracic.

A main achievement of his leadership activity is his role within the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), where he has served on the Board of the Society since 2015, was elected Vice President, and President-Elect for 2026. 

Since the beginning of his career, he has delivered more than 400 invited lectures at major international meetings, including ECR, RSNA, SCMR, and ESCR.

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 the year 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 musculoskelatal MRI in 2008. In parallel, she was a postdoctorial 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 associate professor at Stanford University until her return to Switzerland in 2023. Since then, she works as deputy chief at Team Radiologie Plus in Münsterlingen, Switzerland and serves as clinical adjunct professor at Stanford.

Professor Lutz main interests in research are molecular imaging in oncology and in 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 in the local training and educational programs at Stanford University and 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. She also has been very active in giving invited lectures in Europe since her return.

Professor Lutz is committed to fostering European education and training in radiology with a special focus on the next generations, 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”.

Daniel Pinto dos Santos is Managing Senior Physician and Section Chair for „AI and Imaging Data Science“ of the Dept. of Radiology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

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.

His main clinical and scientific focus is in abdominal imaging, CT-guided interventions and imaging informatics. For his contributions on structured reporting and education on AI he received the Walter-Friedrich award and the Wachsmann innovation award of the German Röntgen Society (DRG).

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 Deputy Editor of European Radiology. 

Luís Curvo Semedo is Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Local Health Unit – Aveiro Region, in Portugal. 

He is currently the President of the Portuguese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (SPRMN). He is Professor at the University of Coimbra and at the University of Aveiro.

His main clinical and research interests are oncologic and abdominal imaging, particularly gastro-intestinal imaging, having participated in several national and international research projects.

He is a regular member of the faculty of ECR and acted as chairman of the Scientific Sub-Committee for Gastro-Intestinal Radiology of the ECR in 2018. He was a member of the ESR Research Committee from 2018 to 2023 and has been a member of the Audit and Standards Subcommittee since 2024.

He is Fellow of the ESGAR, having served the society as Meeting President of the 33rd Annual Meeting and Postgraduate Course, member of the Executive Committee and member of the Educational Committee. He is currently a member of the Workshop Committee.

He participated in the study group that drafted the Clinical Guidelines (NOC) for colorectal cancer, under the sponsorship of the Portuguese Ministry of Health.

He was an invited speaker in more than 180 lectures/conferences/workshops in national and international scientific meetings. Author of eleven chapters in textbooks, he also has more than 60 journal publications. He acted as guest reviewer for more than 20 indexed publications including European Radiology and Insights Into Imaging (of which he was member of the Editorial Board from 2012 to 2017). He is a member of the editorial board of European Journal of Radiology Open and Tomography. 

Ferdia Gallagher is Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Cambridge, is an Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, and is a Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellowship.

As a clinician scientist he develops new methods for imaging cancer and for assessing response to treatment.

Professor Gallagher studied medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, returning to Cambridge to train as a radiologist in Addenbrooke’s Hospital and subsequently undertook a PhD at the University. In 2010 he became an honorary consultant radiologist with an interest in oncological imaging and was appointed Professor of Translational Imaging in 2020.

His research group explores the use of metabolic imaging to stratify tumours and to detect early and successful response to treatment, with the aim of using these new methods to improve the survival of cancer patients. He has expertise in MRI and PET and led the first European study of hyperpolarised carbon-13 MRI. His team have developed novel contrast agents which have been translated from preclinical studies into humans, and this work has been recognised through several awards including the British Institute of Radiology New Technologies Prize, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Magnetic Resonance Imaging Prize, and Fellowship of the World Molecular Imaging Society.

Professor Gallagher previously directed the Academic Radiology Research Training Programme in Cambridge for many years, has served as Chair of the Subcommittee on Contrast Agents, Tracers, and Theranostics within ESR, and was been the Chair of the Research Committee of the European Society for Hybrid, Molecular & Translational Imaging (ESHI). He currently coordinates the Clinical Trials in Radiology sessions at ECR.

Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara is department Chair in Radiology at Tenon Hospital, APHP, Sorbonne Université, with clinical expertise in women’s imaging.

After gradating from medical school at Université Aix Marseille, she obtained his MD at Université Paris Cité and completed his training in Radiology at the Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris. He also holds a PhD in advanced MR technique in Female pelvic Imaging

Prof. Thomassin-Naggara’s main clinical and research interests are breast and gynaecological imaging cancer with a special interest in breast cancer screening, endometriosis and pelvic mass MR characterization. She collaborates with multiple national and international centers, contributed to several multicenter research projects and has coordinated the large european sutdy named EURAD Study on which was developped the O-RADS MR system with the American College of Radiology (ACR)

She has authored or co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed papers, contributed to several book chapters, and coordonnated several consensus papers within european imaging societies (EUSOBI and ESUR)

She contributes widely to undergraduate, postgraduate, and specialist radiology education and built the French national education platform for residents as general secretary of the College Français des Enseignants de Radiologie (CERF). Since the beginning of his career, she has delivered more than 500 invited lectures at major international meetings, including ECR, RSNA, ISRMR, JFR, EUSOBI, and ESUR.

Pr Thomassin-Naggara has served as President of Societé d’Imagerie de la Femme (SIFEM), member of ORADS steering committee, member of the Female Pelvic Imaging group of ESUR, and is currently member of EUSOBI board and Chair of DRIM France IA.

She also serves as Chair of the ESR Quality, Standards and Safety Committee (QSSC), following his election in 2026.

Dr. Raquel Perez-Lopez brings over 10 years of dedicated research in cancer imaging biomarkers, currently serving as Team Leader of the Radiomics Group at VHIO, Barcelona.

Her early pioneering work in whole-body MRI for evaluating bone metastasis at the Royal Marsden Hospital has evolved into a focus on multiparametric MRI and AI-driven analysis to innovate cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Passionate about bridging clinical practice with cutting-edge research, she actively mentors young radiologists and engineers while promoting interdisciplinary collaborations. Internationally, she leads imaging research as Head of the Cancer Core Europe Imaging Task Force and contributes to the EASL AI Task Force. Her editorial roles with NPJ Precision Oncology, Cancer Research Communications, and ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology keep her at the forefront of imaging research.

Dr. Perez-Lopez has led multiple investigator-initiated imaging biomarker trials across Europe, earned the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, and contributed to global cancer response standards as part of the RECIST Working Group and as Oncology Commission Coordinator of the Spanish Association of Radiology (SERAM).

Dr. Perez-Lopez is committed to driving interdisciplinary collaboration by uniting radiologists, healthcare professionals, and engineers. She also fosters training opportunities and facilitates access to research grants for young radiologists and radiographers. Looking ahead, she expects this stage to catalyse new initiatives that transform clinical practice through advances in imaging, benefiting both healthcare providers and patients.

Jacob J. Visser, MD, PhD, is a musculoskeletal radiologist and Chief Medical Information Officer at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He serves as Principal Investigator with a focus on value-based imaging and the clinical implementation of artificial intelligence in radiology.

He studied Medicine at Erasmus University Rotterdam and obtained his PhD in clinical imaging research. In addition, he completed formal training in health economics and clinical epidemiology. He completed his residency in Radiology at Erasmus MC, followed by subspecialty training in musculoskeletal imaging.

His work centers on the responsible evaluation and deployment of AI in radiology, value-based healthcare, imaging informatics, and musculoskeletal oncology imaging. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and leads multidisciplinary research programs on the clinical, organizational, and societal impact of emerging imaging technologies. Within European radiology, he has contributed to strategic initiatives on value-based radiology, health technology assessment, and the integration of subspecialty expertise within imaging practice.

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 400 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Nikolaou is President of the German Roentgen Ray Society (DRG) as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), Member of the International Society of Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R) and Honorary Member of the Greek Society of Radiology. He has been involved in several national and international publicly funded grants and 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).

Ioana-Andreea Gheonea, MD, PhD, is Professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova and President of the Romanian Society of Radiology and Imaging (2021-2023).

She served as Romanian delegate in ESR Quality, Safety and Standards Committee and also Research Committee and has been appointed as Vice-President of Radiology Specialty Committee for Romanian Ministry of Health. Professor Ioana Gheonea is a member of several national and international societies, guest editor of a special issue of Life Journal, author of a national patent, has (co)authored numerous publications and delivered lectures in radiology and imaging and also at other clinical specialty meetings. Her research interest is suggested by her participation as project director and also as member in national and international projects.

Dr. Ioana Andreea Gheonea especially interest includes Abdominal Imaging, Breast Imaging and Artificial Intelligence, but also General Radiology and Imaging.

Professor Ioana Gheonea is committed to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and delivering innovative solutions for patient care. Another interest is seeking opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research, education, and clinical practice.

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.

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