Juan Hernandez-Tamames

Research Interest: MRI Imaging

Academic Background:
Prof. Juan Hernandez-Tamames received his MSc degree in Physics from Complutense University in Madrid (Spain) in 1992. He received his PhD degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering from Polytechnic University also in Madrid in 1999 with a dissertation about Wavelet Transforms in fMRI.  He obtained several academic positions as Assistant Professor at Complutense University and at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid between 1999 and 2002. In 2000 he was visiting professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London (King’s College of London). In 2002 he obtained a permanent position as Associate Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University. From 2004 to 2015 he was the Head of Medical Image Analysis and Biometry Lab at Rey Juan Carlos University. From 2007 to 2014 he was the head of the Electronics Department at Rey Juan Carlos University. From 2008 to 2014 he was the director of the MR Physics Group at the Queen Sofia Research Center for Alzheimer’s Disease in Madrid. From 2010 to 2015 he was faculty of the MIT program M+Vision for medical imaging training and mentoring. Since 2015 Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of Physics in MR TechnologyErasmus MC, department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine: Head of MR Physics Research Group. He was member of the management committee of the EU COST Action “ASL in Dementia”. Since 2017 he is honorary full professor at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid).  He has been PI of several national and international research projects. Since 2020 he has a double appointment (0.2 FTE) in the department of Imaging Physics in TU Delft.