Zeynettin Akkus received his M.Sc. degree in medical imaging from the Medical Engineering Department of the School of Health and Technology, KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2009. He worked as a visiting researcher in the Ultrasound Research Group, Department of Medical Physics, University Hospitals of Leicester, Royal Infirmary, in 2009. He has been working as a junior researcher (Ph.D. student) in the Biomedical Engineering Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, since 2010. His research interests are biomedical image and signal processing, angiogenesis imaging and quantification, and photoacoustic imaging. He received the Best Paper Award in 2013 from the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium and the Best Poster Award in 2013 from the 18th European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging.