Anthony H. Aletras currently serves as a Researcher at the Lund Cardiac MR Group, Clinical Physiology, Department of Clinical Sciences of the Medical Faculty at Lund University, Sweden. He also serves as Director and Professor of Biomedicine and Imaging Technologies at the Laboratory of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1996. His PhD dissertation was on Echo Planar Imaging. He completed his post-doctoral studies and served as a Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics of the National Heart, Lund and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA until 2010. He served as Chairman and Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly until 2014. His published work is on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging both for pathophysiological interrogations and diagnostic imaging. He is a co-inventor of DENSE strain imaging and CEST contrast agents. Area-At-Risk determination based on intramyocardial edema is his most cited work. His research interests are focused on cardiovascular MRI technology and its applications for fetal diagnostics.