Ileana Jelescu

Ileana Jelescu

Assistant Professor
Dept of Radiology, CHUV/UNIL
Email: ileana.jelescu@chuv.ch
Mailing address: Centre de Recherche en Radiologie PET3, CHUV
Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Office: PET3-02-220, Rue Pépinet 3, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland

Ileana Jelescu graduated with a double degree in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and in Medical Physics from McGill University (Canada). She obtained a PhD in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay (France), working on functional and diffusion MRI 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 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, on combining diffusion MRI with biophysical modeling for clinical and preclinical applications. In 2021, she joined the Lausanne University Hospital as 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, able to map microstructure and brain function in humans using diffusion MRI. Her research spans theoretical biophysical modeling, experimental design and validation, and clinical translation. She will share the exciting path of bringing brain microstructure quantification from bench to bedside, with applications to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases, as well as new avenues for mapping brain activity using MRI.