Jos J. M. Westenberg PhD, MSc

Jos studied Applied Physics at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. After military service, he came to Leiden at the end of 1994 to start his Ph.D. study at the Department of Radiology. In October 1999, he defended his thesis entitled Acquisition and analysis of MRA imaging studies correlation with conventional techniques. He continued to work at the Department of Radiology first as a Postdoc, Assistant professor and since 2015, Associate professor (positioned in the Cardiovascular imaging group / Gorter center). His main research focus is cardiovascular MRI and quantitative flow imaging.

Jos has received two grants from the Dutch Heart Foundation, one ZonMw IMDI ​​grant, one grant from ICIN, one grant from Stichting Hartekind, and recently he was awarded a CVON grant for the RADAR study, together with Prof. dr. Hildo Lamb and dr. Arthur Scholte. Jos has published 172 journal papers and 8 book chapters.