Sebastian Weingärtner started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Imaging Physics on July 1st 2019

Sebastian Weingärtner started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Imaging Physics on July 1st 2019. His lab will be working on the development of novel methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to enable quantitative depiction of pathologies in-vivo.

Sebastian earned his Dipl.-Inform. (comparable to M.Sc.) in Computer Science at the University of Wuerzburg in 2011, at the age of 19. In 2014 Sebastian completed his Ph.D. thesis under joint supervision of Prof. Reza Nezafat at the Harvard Medical School and Prof. Lothar R. Schad at the University of Heidelberg. Subsequently, he has performed post-doctoral research focused on quantitative MRI in Heidelberg and Minneapolis.

Most recently, Sebastian was a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Tirin Moore at Stanford University, studying electrical signals in the visual cortex with high-density electrophysiology. His research at Stanford was supported by a prestigious Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship.

At TU Delft Sebastian is starting the Magnetic Resonance Systems (MARS) Lab and will pursue two main veins of research. Firstly, the lab will be developing novel imaging biomarkers to enable non-invasive assessment of tissue integrity in greater detail and provide insights beyond conventional MRI contrasts. Secondly, the lab will work on accelerated and motion-insensitive quantification of imaging parameters to facilitate clinical translation of quantitative MRI. 

In his free time, moving back from California, Sebastian will scout the Dutch coast line for somewhat surf-able waves.