Awards and Distinctions

Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Bitz

Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Aachen University of Applied Sciences (2016)

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Timmann-Braun

Teaching award (2nd prize) International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences, Charité, Berlin (2016 & 2017)

Prof. Dr. David Norris

appointed editor of MAGMA (2017)

Dr. Marcel Gratz

Magna Cum Laude Award der ISMRM für den Beitrag “On the Potential of DWI with Extrapolated High and Negative b-Values for Contrast Enhancement and Image Segmentation” (2017)

Prof. Dr. Mark E. Ladd

- elected vice-president of the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) [German Society for Medical Physics] (2016)

- Co-chair of the leading workshop in the UHF MRI field: ISMRM Workshop “Ultra High Field MRI: Technological Advances & Clinical Applications” (2016)

Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand

- appointed coeditor of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions (2017)

- appointed co-editor of Sucht (2017)

Dr. Miriam W. Lagemaat

Erwin L. Hahn Institute Award for Young Scientists 2016 für die Dissertation „1H and 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging of the prostate at 7 Tesla”

Dr. Oliver Kraff

- elected to the Governing Committee of the MR Safety Study Group as Trainee Representative, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016-2017)

- 2017 Distinguished reviewer for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine during 2015-2016

- DAAD congress grant to take part in the ISMRM Workshop on Ensuring RF Safety in MRI, McLean, VA, USA, (2017)

Sascha Brunheim

Magna Cum Laude Merit Award der ISMRM für den Beitrag „Fast multi-slice B1 and B0 mapping (B01TIAMO) for 32-channel pTx body MRI at 7 Tesla“ (2017)

Dr. Sören Johst

Magna Cum Laude Merit Award der ISMRM für den Beitrag 32-channel in vivo parallel transmit body imaging at 7 Tesla“ given at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine” (2017)

Stefan Rietsch

- Magna Cum Laude Merit Award der ISMRM für den Beitrag „Parallel transmit (pTx) capability of various RF transmit elements and arrays at 7T UHF MRI“ given at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine” (2016)

- DAAD congress travel grant to participate in the ISMRM annual conference in Singapore, (2016)

- DAAD congress travel grant to participate in the ISMRM annual conference in Hawaii (2017)

Dr. Stephan Orzada

- Magna Cum Laude Merit Award of the ISMRM for “A method to approximate maximum local SAR in multi-channel transmit MR systems without transmit phase information”(2016)

- Magna Cum Laude Merit Award of the ISMRM for “A 32-channel transmit system add-on for 7 Tesla body imaging”, Honolulu (2017)

- DAAD congress travel grant to participate in the ISMRM annual conference in Hawaii (2017)

Two clinicians (Dr. Oliver Gembruch, Neurosurgery, and Dr. Jens Claaßen, Neurology) were each awarded an internal one-year research grant (IFORES) by the medical faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen to enable them to pursue their research activities at the ELH Institute.