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Rene M. Botnar

Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Region Metropolitana, Chile

René M. Botnar received his PhD from ETH Zurich. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Radiology at the University of Zurich. In 1997, he joined the Cardiac MR Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, where he later became Scientific Director of the Cardiac MR Center in 2003 and was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
In 2005, Dr. Botnar accepted a Professorship of Biomedical Imaging at the Technische Universität München, where he established a comprehensive cardiac MRI program with a strong focus on preclinical and translational multimodality imaging. His work during this period was funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education, the German Excellence Program, and industry partners.
At the end of 2007, he joined the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London, where he served as Professor and Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging and was Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering from 2014 to 2022. In 2022, Dr. Botnar joined the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as Professor of Biological and Medical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering (IIBM), where he leads interdisciplinary research and education at the interface of engineering, medicine, and the life sciences.
Dr. Botnar is a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance from 2008 to 2011 and has contributed to several international scientific advisory boards. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and former Senior Editor of the Journal of Molecular Imaging and Biology. He has authored more than 365 peer-reviewed original articles, 60 review papers, and 30 book chapters, holds 12 patents, and is editor of a leading textbook on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.

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