Spyros S. Kollias is currently a Professor of neuroradiology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, and also the Chief of the MRI section at the Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich. From 1990 to 1993, he received training in neuroradiology in the United States. During this period, initially, he was for one year at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and subsequently for two years at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CHMC), University of Cincinnati, OH. His group is a member of the Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) (www.neuroscience.unizh.ch) in the section of biomedical technology and imaging. His research is funded by competitive third-party funds from the Swiss National Foundation (SNF), other medical societies, and industry. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, reviews, letters, and book chapters. He is the Co-Editor of two books in the field of high-resolution medical imaging. He is an Invited Lecturer and Faculty Member at several international scientific conferences in the field of neuroradiology and medical imaging every year. His current research interests include applications of advanced MRI technology in the diagnosis of neurologic diseases.