Sebastian Weingärtner, one of the 'Rising Stars' of the Delft Health Initiative
Read about Sebastian Weingärtner, one of the 'Rising Stars' of the Delft Health Initiative. Weingärtner is setting up his own lab at ImPhys. He will focus on MRI physics. For his research at TU Delft, he already got his first grant approved, the NWO start-up grant, which aims to support labs in the basic sciences.
A large initiative was established by the Dutch government to fund 8 tenure track assistant professors across the 4 technical universities. At TU Delft, David Maresca and Sebastian Weingartner were carefully selected amongst the best. Both candidates are being honored as Rising Stars of TU Delft for their brilliant beginnings, for both have received the prestigious START-UP Grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which funds top researchers, steers the course of Dutch science by means of research programs and by managing the national knowledge infrastructure. We are featuring Sebastian Weingärtner, in this two-part introduction to the newly appointed assistant professors.
The way to establishing his own lab:
The rising star sees the future of MRI very positive. He explains: “You know the health scanners in science fiction movies in which a person is placed and the scanner identifies everything that is wrong. That is what I am aiming for in my lab; a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the human body. Therefore I am trying to feed enough information into the MRI images. MRI is based on different underlying physical phenomena. I am trying to exploit some of these physical phenomena to create new imaging contrasts to reveal more information about the tissue that previously could not be depicted.”
Read the rest of this story on the Delft Health Initiative pages.
