Academic positions

• Since 2021 Managing Director, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
• Since 2009 Director Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• 2006-2009 Deputy Director, FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• Since 2005 Director of Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
• Since 2005 Faculty Member of University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
• Since 2001 Head of MR, Principal Investigator, FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• 1995-2001 Head of MR Physics, MPI for Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany
• 1990-1995 Assistant Professor, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• 1987-1990 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Further activities

• Awards and Recognition: 1995- Fellow of the Institute of Physics of Great Britain; 2003- Fellow of ISMRM; 2008- Fellow of ESMRMB; 2009-2010 President, ISMRM; 2014- External Scientific Member, Max Planck Society.
• Advisory Boards: 2008-2014 Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition; 2009- Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (fMRIB); 2013-15 EU Advisory Board on Health.
• I serve/have served on the editorial boards of the following journals: 1999-2002 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; 2000-2003 International Advisory Board of Physics in Medicine and Biology; 2001-2018 Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging; 2001-2018 Magnetic Resonance in Medicine; 2001- BMC Medical Imaging, handling editor (2014-2016); ; 2003- BMC Medicine; 2013- Neuroimage 2015- Tomography.