About us

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.

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).

Professor Catalano is full professor of radiology and chairs the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome and the Department of Integrated Diagnostics, at Policlinico Umberto I – Sapienza University of Rome. 

He obtained his MD at Sapienza University of Rome in 1990 and completed his training in Radiology at the University of L’Aquila in 1994.
Prof. Catalano’s main clinical interests are cardio-vascular and oncological imaging. He leads research in digital health and innovations at Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on the integration of digital health data to develop precision medicine and digital and biological twins, to improve diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. His own research track record is in digital health in cardiovascular and oncological diseases, for which he collaborates with numerous centers worldwide. He has been awarded with several grants as principal investigator coordinating numerous centers. 

Prof. Catalano has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers, which have been cited over 13,000 times. He has authored numerous chapters and edited several books and is also a part of the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals.
Prof. Catalano has delivered more than 500 invited lectures among which at the Josef Lissner lecture during ECR 2013.

Andrzej Cieszanowski is Professor of Radiology at the Medical University of Warsaw (2nd Department of Clinical Radiology) and Medical Director in Radius Medicine, Warsaw, Poland. 

His major research interests are abdominal and oncology imaging with special interest in liver, pancreas and kidney MRI imaging. 

Professor Cieszanowski is presently vice-President of Polish Medical Society of Radiology (PMSR); from 2019 to 2023 he was President of PMSR and from 2016 to 2019 vice-President of this Society. He is an Ambassador of European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) in Poland (previously National Representative - since 2015). Professor Cieszanowski was a Member of several ESR Committees and Subcommittees including National Societies Committee, Education Committee, Vascular Subcommittee and Abdominal Subcommittee. Since 2020 to date, he has been cooperating with the European Board of Radiology (EBR) in the organization and supervision of the European Diploma of Radiology (EDiR) in Poland.

Professor Cieszanowski chaired the Department of Radiology at Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw from 2015 to 2023 and from 2002 to 2015 he chaired the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Department (of 2nd Department of Clinical Radiology) at Medical University of Warsaw. 

Professor Andrzej Cieszanowski participated in several international domestic research grants and projects. He received several scientific awards including the first award for the oral presentation in the category Best Scientific Paper Presentation Award within the topic "Abdominal Viscera" (ECR 2014) and Best Research Presentation Abstract within the topic "Oncologic Imaging” (ECR 2022). He has given more than 200 invited lectures, authored and co-authored more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored co-authored 40 book chapters and was scientific editor and co-editor of 4 textbooks, including of current Polish radiology textbook for medical students (2022). He is initiator and Chair of the e-education program and platform for radiologists in Poland – Eduradiologia.

Since 2018 he has been leading a radiology rock band Zdrowy Margines/Healthy Margin (playing electric guitar), which performs at Polish radiology conferences and congresses. 

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”.

Maija Radziņa is Associate Professor of University of Latvia, Program director of Radiology Residency training program and Radiology study programmes and Leading Researcher in Riga Stradins university as Chief of Radiology Research Laboratory in Latvia.

She has served as President of Latvian Radiology Association (LRA) president (2015-2023) and currently acts as Vice-President of Latvian Radiology and Ultrasound Societies and has been appointed as Chief specialist in Radiology for Ministry of Health of the Republic of Latvia.

Dr Radziņa is especially interested and active in postgraduate education in her home country and throughout Europe. Additionally, Maija Radzina is involved in Program Planning Committee of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in 2023 and 2024.

She chaired the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) Education and Professional Standards Committee (EPSC) 2019-2021 and Executive Board Co-opted member 2021-2023 and serves as UEMS Radiology Section member (since 2018) and has been involved in the Steering Committee of the European School of Radiology (ESOR), and served as Chairman of the Board Examination in Radiology in Latvia. In addition, she acted as a member of RSNA Regional Committee for Europe (2015-2022) and RSNA Science Council and QIBA task force group member (since 2022).

Currently she isinvolved as Member at Large in ESGAR Executive Commitee (since 2021) and CERN Medicis Board member (since 2018).

The main focus of Dr Maija Radziņa clinical and scientific work includes Abdominal and Oncology imaging and Vascular examinations. She has dedicated her research for various pathologies, including Stroke imaging and CT perfusion, PET/CT and MRI of Prostate, Colorectal and Renal cancer and her speciality is Ultrasound - Contrast enhanced ultrasound of Abdominal and Superficial organs (Thyroid, Parathyroid) as well as Musculoskeletal imaging (Peripheral nerves), and US Elastography. She has given more than 200 invited lectures, authored and co-authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and authored several book chapters. Her contribution to the professional guidelines and position papers (EFSUMB, ESR) and organization of international congresses (BCR, EUROSON) has been well recognized by the radiology community.

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.

Dr. Emanuele Neri is full Professor of Radiology at the University of Pisa, Italy, Dean of the Medical School, Chair of the Department of Radiology and of the Radiology Residency program. 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 Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM) and delegate for international affairs, of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), where he served in several committees and subcommittees, especially in the Quality, safety and standards as chair of the eHealth and informatics. He is member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) where he served as member of the Radiology Informatics Committee.

Dr. Neri is 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 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.

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.

Núria Bargalló graduated from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 1988 and was trained in radiology in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in 2004 at the University of Barcelona. Currently is head of the Neuroradiology section of the Radiology Department at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Associated Professor at the University of Barcelona and Strategic Director of the Magnetic resonance Image Core Facility of the Research Institute IDIBAPS in Barcelona.

She has been very participative in scientific societies. She is the president of the Spanish Society of Neuroradiology and the chair of the Subspecialities and Allied Sciences Committee of the ESR.

Professor Bargalló's field of expertise is advanced neuroimage in epilepsy, degenerative disease, and psychiatry. She has led several research studies on clinical application of advanced MR technique sequences and post-processing. She participates in international consortiums to increase image data on psychiatric diseases and epilepsy (ENIGMA and MELD). She participates in numerous national and international education activities, disseminating her knowledge in Neuroradiology.

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.

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