Short Biography
PD Habib Zaidi, Ph.D
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Dr. Habib Zaidi is senior physicist and head of the PET
Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. He received a Ph.D. in medical physics from Geneva University for a dissertation on Monte Carlo modelling and scatter
correction in positron emission tomography. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging
have been well recognized by the Medical School of Geneva University, which
elected him to become faculty member as Privat-Docent. Dr. Zaidi is actively involved in developing
imaging solutions for cutting-edge biomedical research and clinical diagnosis
in addition to lecturing graduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics
and medical imaging. His research centre on modelling nuclear medical imaging
systems using the Monte Carlo method, dosimetry, image correction,
reconstruction and quantification techniques in emission tomography as well as
statistical image analysis in functional brain imaging, and more recently on
novel design of dedicated high-resolution PET scanners in collaboration within
the Computed Imaging for Medical Applications (CIMA) collaboration hosted by
CERN. He was guest editor for a special issue of Computer Methods and Programs
in Biomedicine dedicated to medical image segmentation and serve as associate
editor for Medical Physics and the International Journal of Biomedical Imaging.
He is also member of the editorial board of Computer Methods and Programs in
Biomedicine and the International Journal of Nuclear Medicine,
regional Editor for Electronic Medical Physics News, a publication of the
International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP), and scientific reviewer
for leading journals in medical physics, nuclear medicine and scientific
computing. He is senior member of the IEEE and member of the professional
relations committee of the IOMP in addition to being affiliated to several
International medical physics and nuclear medicine organisations. He is
involved in the evaluation of research proposals for European and International
granting organisations and participates in the organisation of International
symposia and top conferences as member of scientific committees. He is
recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003
Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical
and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee (NMISTC) of the IEEE to a young
investigator in recognition of significant and innovative technical
contributions to the field of medical imaging science
and the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by
the Society of Nuclear Medicine based on research accomplishments, teaching,
clinical service, administration; service to the Society and a commitment to
academic nuclear medicine. Dr. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of many
keynote lectures at an International level, has authored over 120 publications,
including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings and book
chapters and is the editor of two textbooks on therapeutic applications of Monte Carlo calculations in nuclear medicine and quantitative
analysis in nuclear medicine imaging.
email: habib.zaidi@hcuge.ch
Web: http://dmnu-pet5.hcuge.ch/