Professor
Inserm, u1148
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Ralph Sinkus, Prof, LVTS, U1148 INSERM France and King's College London UK
Being a physicist with a background in high energy physics, nuclear physics and MRI, I am working with my research team in Paris in a scientific and yet clinical environment strongly oriented towards translational research.
I spent half of my scientific career in industry and half in academia. During my PhD in high energy physics I worked on quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics. After my PhD (1997) I took a position at Philips Medical Systems Research Laboratories in Hamburg, Germany. My main focus of research was in the domain of MRI and in particular in the field of MR-elastography (MRE).
In 2004 I decided to leave the industrial research to further develop my academic career. I followed a call to the “Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique”, ESPCI, Paris, France. In 2007 I obtained a permanent position as research director at CNRS. This inspired me to move towards a new scientific environment offering me the possibilities to have access to three spatial scales: molecular and cellular level, small animal scale, and access to patients.
In 2013 I followed a call to King’s College London as Chair in Biomedical Engineering. We obtained a EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aiming to quantify non-invasively the pressure a tumour exerts on its surroundings.
In 2018 I decided to return to France. We have right now a split lab in Paris and London working on the quantification of tissue biomechanics in various domains, ranging from cardiovascular, over neuronal, to abdominal and skin applications. One key aspect we are currently investigating is the ability of waves to inform not only about the constitutive hence intrinsic integrity of tissue, but also about the vascular organization due to multiple scattering effects.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
5:50 PM – 6:05 PM