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Dr. Daniel Wenz, PhD, is a medical physicist and radio-frequency (RF) engineer specializing in ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF-MRI). He earned his degree in Medical Physics from AGH University of Kraków, Poland, in 2014 and subsequently moved to Germany to pursue doctoral studies at the Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, obtaining his PhD from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2020.

Since 2019, Dr. Wenz has been a Research Staff Scientist at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland. Since October 2025, he has served as MRI Hardware Laboratory Manager, overseeing the development, implementation, and operation of advanced MRI hardware technologies.

His research focuses on developing innovative RF technologies and hardware solutions for novel clinical and neuroscientific applications of MRI, including physiometabolic imaging, multinuclear MRI, and hybrid systems integrating MRI with transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation and electroencephalography (EEG).

Since May 2026, Dr. Wenz has also served as Principal Investigator on a four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). This work has secured approximately CHF 813,000 in competitive funding to support the development of next-generation technologies for non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging.

Keywords: UHF-MRI, X-nuclei MRI, RF technology, EMF simulations, RF safety, Low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU), electroencephalography (EEG).