Prof. Dr. Regina Beets-Tan, MD, PhD, chairs the Department of Radiology at The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. Her clinical expertise is oncological and abdominal imaging. Her own research is in colorectal cancer imaging. Regina Beets-Tan is the Scientific Director of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research, former president of ESR, ESGAR and ESOI and member of the EU mission board for cancer. She believes that a multidisciplinary approach to treatment is the key for better patient outcomes.
Annemiek Snoeckx, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp and Chair of the Radiology Department at Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium. Her clinical and research expertise focus on thoracic oncology imaging and lung cancer screening. Professor Snoeckx is actively involved in several professional societies, including the European Society of Radiology, European Society of Thoracic Imaging, European School of Radiology and European Respiratory Society. She is co-founder of the Flemish Taskforce Lung Cancer Screening and principal investigator of the Flemish lung cancer screening implementation study ZORALCS. Passionate about education in thoracic oncology, she has lectured widely at national and international meetings and courses. She authored or co-authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Nickolas Papanikolaou, PhD is Principal Investigator in Oncologic Imaging and leads the Computational Clinical Imaging Group at the Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon. He is also Machine Learning Imaging Lead for the AI Hub at the Royal Marsden and Honorary Reader at the Institute of Cancer Research, London. Internationally, he collaborates as an Affiliated Researcher at Karolinska Institute and Senior Affiliated Researcher at FORTH, Greece. A founding member of the FUTURE-AI initiative, Dr. Papanikolaou is driving the safe and effective translation of AI into clinical practice. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, edited a three-volume series on Diffusion-Weighted Imaging, and served as Section Editor on AI, Radiomics, and Machine Learning in Cancer Imaging. He was the scientific coordinator of the EU-funded ProCancer-I project on AI in prostate cancer and recently launched an International Radiomics Network. Recognized with scholarships from the ECR and honorary membership of the Spanish Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology (SEDIA), being a fellow in ESGAR and ICIS, he has delivered more than 130 invited lectures worldwide and continues to shape the future of AI in oncologic imaging.
Prof. Christian Loewe is the chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at the Medical University of Vienna. The main focus of his clinical and scientific work is on noninvasive cardiovascular diagnostic imaging. He is member of the Executive Council of ESR, the Director of the European School of Radiology (ESOR), and the Past President of the Austrian Roentgen Society.
Prof. Rolf Jäger is neuroradiologist at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Consultant Neuroradiologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and at University College Hospital (UCH).
His current clinical practice is in Diagnostic Neuroradiology with subspecialist areas of expertise in Neurovascular Diseases, Neuro-oncology, Neurodegeneration and Neuroinfectious Diseases. He is leading the clinical implementation of advanced MRI techniques such as arterial spin labelling perfusion imaging, extra- and intracranial vessel wall imaging and susceptibility weighted imaging, which help advancing our understanding of stroke mechanisms.
Prof. Dr. K. Verstraete is full professor of Radiology at the Ghent University and Academic Chief of the department of Radiology at the Ghent University hospital. He was president of the ESSR (European society of Musculoskeletal Radiology) and is currently member of the steering committee of the ESOR (European School of Radiology).
He is specialized in musculoskeletal radiology with a special interest in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, bone and soft tissue tumors, and trauma imaging.
Prof. Andrea Rockall is Clinical Chair in Radiology at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with clinical expertise in genito-urinary imaging. She was awarded the Rohan Williams Medal (Gold Medal) for the FRCR examination. She has served as Chair of the Female Pelvic Imaging group of ESUR, member of O-RADS steering committee. She was President of 2025 ECR and is currently Chairperson of the ESR Board of Directors.
Prof. Minerva Becker is Full Professor of Radiology and Chief of Unit of Head and Neck and Maxillo-facial Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva University. Her main fields of research and clinical expertise include head and neck oncology, base of the skull and post-treatment imaging, salivary glands, dento-maxillo-facial radiology, as well as implementation of new imaging techniques (multiparametric MRI, hybrid imaging…). She is currently President of the ESR and will be President of 2026 ECR.
Prof. Tamás Kincses is the Director of the Department of Radiology at the University of Szeged, Hungary. A neurologist, radiologist and neuroradiologist by training, his research focuses on neuroimaging in multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders, combining advanced MRI methods with clinical applications. He began his scientific career as a PhD fellow in Göttingen, later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, and as a senior researcher at the International Clinical Research Center in Brno. He has published extensively in neuroimaging and continues to contribute to the advancement of translational research in radiology and neurology.
Prof. Dr. Geert Villeirs is Chairman at the Department of Medical Imaging at Ghent University Hospital (Belgium), where he started his career in 1998. He is Professor of Urogenital Radiology and his scientific work focuses mainly on MRI of the prostate.
He published over 150 original papers and book chapters and is a frequently solicited speaker at national and international meetings and courses. He currently is President of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), former Chairman of the ESUR Prostate MRI Working Group (2016-2018) and former member of the PI-RADS Steering Committee (2017-2021).
Prof. Villeirs was President of the Belgian Society of Radiology from 2013 to 2020, and is currently Chairman of the Belgian Medical Imaging Platform (BELMIP), where he also chairs the Working Groups “Quality” and “Innovation”. He is advisor for the Belgian Federal Public Service – Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, the Federal Knowledge Center (KCE), Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid (Flemish Government) and reviewer for many (inter)national journals.
Prof. Alberto Bazzocchi is a radiology consultant at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, Italy. He is an adjunct Professor of Radiology at the University of Bologna, Italy, and qualified as full professor of Radiology by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research in 2018.
He has participated in numerous research programs and has designed and coordinated research projects winner of national and international calls – as principal investigator (PI and co-PI) in the field of diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal radiology, with projects accounting for about 2 million EUR.
He has authored over 230 articles, 20 book chapters and has contributed to over 330 works presented at congresses worldwide. He has served as editor for different journals (e.g. Radiologic Clinics of North America,and guest editor for Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology). He is section editor for the European Journal of Radiology, associate editor for the British Journal of Radiology, and is a member of the editorial board of different journals – including advisory editorial board member of European Radiology, European Radiology Experimental, Insights into Imaging, and Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging.
He is an active member of multiple societies, co-chairman of the Imaging & Tracer platform of A_IATRIS (Italian Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure), elected councellor of the ESSR, past chairman of the O&M subcommittee of ESSR. He served as member of multiple specialty committees/subcommittees at ESR, ESSR and ISS (including ESR E-learning Subcommittee, ECR Scientific Musculoskeletal Subcommittee, and ISS Research and Scientific Session Committees), and he is member of the Committee of Scientific Advisors (CSA) of the IOF. Alberto has collaborated as coordinator, organizing member or part of scientific committees of several congresses at a national and international level. He has been recently announced as recipient of the 2026 President’s Medal of the International Skeletal Society (ISS).
Prof. Ritse Mann is breast radiologist at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen and the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. He is research group leader of the breast imaging group, performing clinical breast imaging research at both institutions.
Areas of particular interest include breast cancer screening and breast MRI. Major achievements include the invention of ultrafast breast MRI, clinical validation of MRI screening in various populations including women with dense breasts, and the development of several guidelines and state-of-art recommendations in this field. In addition, his research focusses on minimal invasive therapy and the use of artificial intelligence for screening, diagnosis and therapy selection of breast cancer.
He is member of the executive board of the European society of breast imaging (EUSOBI) since 2015, current chairperson of the scientific committee and past chair of the program planning committee of its annual meeting. In addition, he is interim deputy editor for Radiology for breast imaging, advisory editorial board member of European radiology and its subjournals, past chair of the working group “diagnostics” of the Dutch breast cancer research group (BOOG), and chair of the Dutch college of breast imaging.
