Ruud van Heeswijk

Ruud B. van Heeswijk is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). His research focuses on the development of new quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods that deepen the understanding of cardiovascular pathologies and improve their clinical diagnosis.

He directs a research group specializing in tissue characterization through parametric mapping, motion-resolved high-resolution imaging, and fluorine-19 (¹⁹F) molecular imaging, as well as the integration of artificial intelligence into MRI frameworks. As Principal Investigator, Prof. van Heeswijk leads the multi-center HeartMagic consortium, which combines advanced MRI, metabolomics, genomics, and machine learning to thoroughly characterize and better understand heart failure.

Prof. van Heeswijk holds an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a PhD in Physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Alongside his research, he is dedicated to academic education, teaching both undergraduate physics and several postgraduate imaging courses, while directly supervising Master’s students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers.