Category: News

  • Two open positions (PhD & PostDoc)

    The QIS lab is looking for two passionate MRI scientists to start in the summer/fall of 2024, a PhD student and a Postdoctoral Researcher. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “Advanced lipid-insensitive MRI relaxometry for unbiased noninvasive characterization of the entire human liver”. Funding is available for up […]

  • CAIM Fellowship for Dr. Eva Peper

    Dr. Eva Peper received the prestigious CAIM Fellowship from the University of Bern. The project is entitled “AI Acceleration of 3D Cardiac bSSFP MRI” and will start in summer 2024. Stay tuned for positions opening up!

  • Welcome Yves

    Yves is a student in the MSc program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern. He will work with us on quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7T, together with Berk. We are excited to have you on the team!

  • Welcome Guillaume, Janick, and Matteo

    Three new Biomedical Engineering Master students have joined the QIS lab. They will be working on biomarker mapping in the human brain, fat-free relaxometry of the human liver, and free-breathing cardiac image reconstructions. Welcome to the team!

  • Welcome to Kelly Bonzon and Melina Gilsing

    Two new Biomedical Engineering Master students have joined the QIS lab. They will be working on the implementation of open source pulse sequences and AI tools for advanced processing and reconstruction of MRI data. Welcome to the team!

  • Jessica Bastiaansen teaches in the ESMRMB School of MRI about Advanced and Applied MRI Principles

    Jessica gives a lecture on the topic “Fat suppression and Introduction to Quantitative Imaging”, which is part of the Practical MR Physics course organized by the ESMRMB School of MRI. The lecture series is composed of different topics geared around the field of magnetic resonance imaging. More information can be found on the following link.

  • Jessica Bastiaansen joins the Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) of the ISMRM

    Jessica was invited to serve on the Annual Meeting Programming Committee (AMPC) of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). “It is a true honour to be asked to be part of the AMPC, and I look forward to contribute to the organization of the next three ISMRM meetings!”. The annual meeting attracts […]

  • Dr. Rahel Heule presented about asymmetries in the brain at 9.4T

    Dr Rahel Heule from the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen and the children’s hospital in Zuerich visited our imaging center in Bern. She gave a seminar entitled “Asymmetries in the Brain: A Methodological Exploration of bSSFP MRI in Neuroimaging at 3T and 9.4T“. Our belief in bSSFP methods to uncover novel biomarkers have only been […]

  • Prof. Jürgen Hennig visits and talks about the evolution of field strength

    Professor Jürgen Hennig visited the Translational Imaging Center in Bern as well as several MRI research groups. Besides his seminar on “The Evolution of Field Strength in MR: Back to the Future?“, he shared his insights on open source MRI sequence programming as well as his academic career. We had a blast, and we were […]

  • Prof. Bastiaansen joins the editorial board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

    Prof. Dr. Jessica Bastiaansen, head of the QIS LAB, joins the editorial board of the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.