Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D.

Leiden University Medical Center

Andrew Webb graduated from the University of Bristol in chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. After a postdoc in the Department of Radiology at the University of Florida, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was appointed full professor in 2000 and worked for three years in the Department of Physics at the University of Wurzburg with a Wolfgang Paul Prize from the Humboldt Foundation. In 2008, he was appointed to run the newly formed C.J. Gorter Centre in the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center. His research concentrates on the translation of new engineering concepts into the clinic. This work initially concentrated on high field MRI, supported by an ERC Advanced Grant from 2015-2020, but recently his lab moved more into the area of sustainable open-source low-field MRI for developing countries funded by the Simon Stevin Preis and a second ERC Advanced Grant 2021-2026. He has authored/co-authored five academic textbooks on medical imaging and biomedical instrumentation. In 2020, he was the President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology and co-formed the Committee for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa. In 2023, he was elected to the Royal Dutch National Academy of Sciences and received the Huibregtsenprijs for societal scientific research. In 2010, he founded the Nadine Barrie Smith Trust, which has provided financial support for over 150 female undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering.

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