Daniel RAZANSKY
University of Zurich & ETH Zurich
WHO AM I
Daniel Razansky is Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging with double appointments at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich and the Department of Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich, where he also serves as Director of the joint Preclinical Imaging Center.
He earned degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and conducted postdoctoral research at the Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Harvard Medical School. Prior to moving his lab to Zurich in 2019, he was Professor of Molecular Imaging Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich in Germany.
His Lab pioneered a number of bioimaging technologies for pre-clinical research and clinical diagnostics, among them the multi-spectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) and hybrid optoacoustic ultrasound (OPUS). He co-founded iThera Medical GmbH which successfully commercialized those inventions and deployed imaging scanners in numerous biological research labs and clinical facilities around the globe.
Razansky’s research has been recognized by the German Innovation Prize and multiple awards from the ERC, NIH, SNSF, DFG and HFSP. He is a Founding Editor of the Photoacoustics journal and serves on Editorial Boards of journals published by Springer-Nature, Elsevier, and IEEE. He is also a Council Member of the European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) and an elected Fellow of the IEEE, SPIE, and Optica Societies.