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CIBM MRI EPFL MR Imaging Technology Section

Dimitrios Karampinos, PhD, is, since March 2025, Associate Professor in the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering of the  School of Engineering (STI) and in the Institute of Physics of the School of Basic Sciences (SB) at EPFL and the Head  of the Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems and Methods at EPFL. He studied engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, from 1998 to 2003. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, focusing on biomedical engineering and biomedical imaging. In 2008, he earned a PhD in biomedical imaging from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2012, he joined the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a Junior Group Leader. He obtained his Habilitation in Medical Physics and the Venia legendi from TUM in 2016. Between 2019 and 2024, he served as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Experimental Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the TUM School of Medicine and Health, and was granted tenure in June 2024.

He has co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed journal articles, more than 300 conference papers and abstracts, and five book chapters, and is co-inventor on four patents. He is a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2016) and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant (2020). He has been actively engaged with the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), contributing to various committees and co-authoring 34 abstracts recognized with Magna or Summa Cum Laude Merit Awards at ISMRM Annual Meetings. He received the ISMRM Junior Fellowship in 2011 and served on the Governing Committee of the ISMRM Musculoskeletal MR Study Group from 2020 to 2024. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and of Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine.

Since April 2025, he is the Head of the CIBM MRI EPFL MR Imaging Technology Section.

Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging, data acquisition and image reconstruction methods development, quantitative imaging biomarkers, body MRI, musculoskeletal MRI