Vasilis Ntziachristos, Munich
Vasilis is a Full Professor of Medicine and Electrical Engineering and holds the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich. He is the Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and Director of Bioengineering at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus. He was briefly the director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas, but more on that later in our discussion. He is also a founding member and board member of the translational oncology center TranslaTUM and the Speaker of the Study Program of the Munich School of Bioengineering. For his work he has been awarded several prestigious awards, including the 2013 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation, the German innovation Prize and many others.