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Robert J. Holtackers, PhD

MR Physicist & Assistant Professor
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Rob Holtackers obtained his MSc degree in Medical Engineering with cum laude distinction from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2015, followed by a four-month research internship at King’s College London. Later that year, he began his PhD at the Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), focusing on improving the visualisation of subendocardial myocardial fibrosis using CMR. He defended his dissertation “Visualising the invisible: dark-blood late gadolinium enhancement MRI for improved detection of subendocardial scar” with cum laude distinction.

Since 2017, Rob has been working as an MRI Physicist in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Imaging at MUMC. He is currently Assistant Professor and is responsible for the development, validation, clinical implementation of advanced cardiac MRI techniques. He also holds visiting appointments as Senior Lecturer at King’s College London (UK) and Assistant Professor at the Lausanne University Hospital (CH).

Rob is an active member of the SCMR, EACVI, ISMRM, ESCR, and ECR, serves as Section Editor for Topics in MRI and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, is a member of the EACVI cardiac MRI examination committee, and has (co-)authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field of MRI.

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