UTFacultiesTNWResearchDept BISM3INewsSrirang Manohar appointed Professor and Chair of Multi-Modality Medical Imaging

Srirang Manohar appointed Professor and Chair of Multi-Modality Medical Imaging

Srirang Manohar (PhD) has been appointed Professor and Chair of Multi-Modality Medical Imaging (M3I) retroactive from 1 February 2019. He was previously in the Biomedical Photonic Imaging (BMPI) group at the University of Twente as Adjunct Professor.

He started his career with a combined Master-PhD at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, earning his doctorate in 2001 for his contributions to thermal-wave spectroscopy on amorphous semiconductors. He came to the University of Twente as a Post-Doc, and then secured a VENI grant. He was appointed Assistant Professor in 2008, Associate Professor in 2014 and Adjunct Professor in 2016, all positions in the Biomedical Photonic Imaging.

Prof. Manohar has pioneered research into photoacoustic imaging of breast cancer. He has also made important contributions to speed-of-sound imaging, photoacoustic imaging of finger joints in rheumatoid arthritis, and has recently started research into laser-induced ultrasound imaging, and minimally-invasive interstitial photoacoustic-ultrasound imaging. His research spans technology development to early clinical assessment.

He is a member of the Organizing Committee for the conference ‘Photons plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing’ (SPIE, Photonics West, San Francisco, USA). He is also member of the Program Committee for the conference ‘Opto-Acoustic Methods & Applications’ (European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, Munich Germany). Prof. Manohar has recently joined the Editorial Board of the journal Photoacoustics, an Elsevier publication.

Since 2018 he is as the joint-Coordinator at the University of Twente of the activities of the Imaging & Diagnostics Research Domain. He is the Research Track Leader for Imaging in the Centre for Medical Imaging – North-East Netherlands.