Chris L. De Korte MSc, PhD

Chris L. de Korte is Full Professor Medical Ultrasound Techniques. Since 2012, he is chair of the Medical UltraSound Imaging Centre at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of Radboud university medical centre. His research is on functional imaging using Ultrasound with a focus on cardiovascular applications. For his research he receives several grants from the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) and a VENI (2000), VIDI (2006) and VICI (2011) grant from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

He studied Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1999, he obtained his Ph.D. at the Biomedical Engineering Group of the Thoraxcentre, Erasmus University Rotterdam on his thesis Intravascular Ultrasound Elastography. In 2002 he joined the Clinical Physics Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center of which he became head in 2004.

In 2006 he was registered as Medical Physicist. Prof. de Korte is president of the Netherlands Society for Medical Ultrasound (NVMU) and national delegate of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB).