Ileana O. Jelescu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Radiology · Lausanne University Hospital · company speakers →

Ileana Jelescu, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of radiology at the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland. She graduated with a double degree in physics from École Polytechnique (France) and in medical physics from McGill University (Canada). She obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Université Paris-Saclay (France), working on MR microscopy at single neuron-level in aplysia. She then completed postdoctoral work at the New York University School of Medicine and at the Center for Biomedical Imaging of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where she focused on combining diffusion MRI with biophysical modeling to map brain microstructure in clinical and preclinical applications. In 2021, she joined the Lausanne University Hospital as an assistant professor, funded by an Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation and an ERC Starting Grant. Her vision is to turn the MRI scanner into a quantitative in vivo microscope for tissue structure and function in patients. Her research spans theoretical biophysical modeling, experimental design and validation, and clinical translation to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. She will share the exciting path of bringing brain microstructure quantification from whiteboard to bedside, as well as new avenues for mapping brain activity using MRI.

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