Ferdinand Schweser Ph.D.

Ferdinand Schweser

Ferdinand Schweser
Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging

Department of Neurology

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences


Specialty/Research Focus

Ageing; Anatomy; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Image Analysis; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Informatics; Biometal Imaging; Biophysical Modeling; Biophysics; Biostatistics; Brain Iron Homeostasis; Brain Research; Clinical Research; Disease Progression Modeling; Image Analysis; Image Processing and Analysis; Imaging Informatics; Inverse Imaging Problems; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) – High Resolution; Mathematical Modeling; Metabolic Imaging; Molecular Imaging; Molecular Imaging Techniques; Molecular Imaging Techniques; MRI - preclinical; MRI - Ultra-high field; MRI Methodology; Multimodal Imaging Technology; Multiple Sclerosis; Nanoparticles; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Neuroimaging; Neuroimaging Analysis; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neuroscience; Nuclear Medicine; Preclinical Research; Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping; Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping; Radiological Physics; Radiology; Team Science; Technology; Translational imaging; Translational Research; Traumatic Brain Injury

Contact Information
6045C Clinical and Translational Research Center
875 Ellicott Street
Buffalo, New York 14203
Phone: (716) 888-4718
schweser@buffalo.edu



Professional Summary:

My biomedical imaging research lab fosters translational team-science discovery from mouse to human. My lab is part of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC). In addition, my lab provides expertise in imaging physics and analysis for the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CBI), a core facility of UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), for which I serve as the Technical Director.

My research program targets several interrelated topics in biomedical imaging of neurological disease. The principle thread connecting these topics is the advancement of neuroimaging technology for noninvasive profiling of tissue pathology. The focus of my research program lies in the development and application of novel computational methods to quantify biophysical tissue properties with MRI, primarily those related to tissue iron. Disease progression is associated with disturbed brain iron homeostasis in many neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), providing a strong rationale for the study of brain iron.

I pioneered the development of an MRI method referred to as quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). QSM capitalizes on the observation that biological tissues perturb the static magnetic field of the MRI scanner in a predictable way that depends on their magnetizability (or: magnetic susceptibility), which is strongly affected by tissue iron. QSM measures these perturbations and computes the underlying spatial distribution of susceptibility by solving several physics-based inverse mathematical problems, a process to which I have made several groundbreaking contributions.

Alongside my methodological work, a major priority of my research program is the clinical translation of advanced research imaging technology. I pursue this ambition through extensive collaboration with colleagues at the Department of Neurology, the CBI, and external partners.

Education and Training:

  • PhD, Medical Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Summa Cum Laude (2013)
  • Certificate, Certified Photonics Professional, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2008)
  • MS, Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Summa Cum Laude (2008)
  • Certificate, Correspondence study of physics and mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern (2003)

Employment:

  • Associate Professor, Neurology, University at Buffalo (2021-present)
  • Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging, University at Buffalo (2020-present)
  • Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Clinical and Translational Research Institute, University at Buffalo (2020-present)
  • Director of Sequence Development, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (2015-present)
  • Research Physicist, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (2014-present)
  • Faculty, Neuroscience Program, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (2014-present)
  • Graduate Faculty, University at Buffalo (2014-present)
  • Assistant Professor, Neurology, University at Buffalo (2014–2021)
  • Technical Director of MRI, Center for Biomedical Imaging, University at Buffalo (2015–2020)
  • Technical Director of MRI, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Clinical and Translational Research Institute, University at Buffalo (2015–2020)
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Hans Berger Department of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, Jena University Hospital (2013)
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Medical Physics, Jena University Hospital, Germany (2013)
  • Research Associate, Medical Physics Group, Jena University Hospital Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (2013)
  • Research Assistant, Medical Physics, Jena University Hospital (2008–2009)
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Awards and Honors:

  • Editor’s Pick for the Month of July (2021)
  • Scialog Fellow for Advancing Bioimaging (2021)
  • Top Cited Article 2018-2019 (2020)
  • Top Cited Article 2016 (2019)
  • Distinguished Service to the Society (2018)
  • Editor’s Pick for the Month of March (2018)
  • Best Poster (2016)
  • Distinguished Service to the Society (2015)
  • Grateful Appreciation of Service to the Society (2015)
  • Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (2015)
  • Distinguished Service to the Society (2014)
  • Award for best doctoral dissertation (2014)
  • Junior Fellow (2014)
  • Varian poster prize (2013)
  • Young Investigator Award at 2nd Intl. QSM Workshop (2013)
  • ISMRM 2013 Seed Grant Award (2013)
  • ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (2013)
  • IUPAP Young Scientist Medal in Medical Physics (2013)
  • Best poster presentation in ISMRM poster-highlights session (2013)
  • DGMP Young Investigator Award (2012)
  • Invitation to student poster-highlight session (2012)
  • ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (2012)
  • ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (2012)
  • ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (2012)
  • ISMRM 1st place poster award (2011)
  • Gorter Award (2011)
  • Carl Zeiss Foundation doctoral scholarship (2009)

Research Expertise:

  • Computational Imaging: biostatistics; machine learning; image processing; image analysis
  • Inverse Problems: magnetostatics; source separation
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): phase MRI; susceptibility MRI; iron MRI; preclinical imaging; multi-modal imaging
  • Neuroimaging: Neurodegenerative disorder; aging

Research Centers:

  • Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center
  • Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC)
  • Jacobs Neurological Institute

UB 2020 Strategic Strengths:

  • Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan
  • Information and Computing Technology

Grants and Sponsored Research:

  • April 2021–March 2026
    Optimizing Chest Compressions Targeting Gas Exchange and Hemodynamics in a Transitional Cardiac Arrest Model
    National Institutes of Health
    Role: Co-Investigator
    $1,642,389
  • July 2021–June 2025
    Deep gray matter iron and disease progression in multiple sclerosis.
    National Institutes of Health
    Role: Principal Investigator
    $1,808,000
  • February 2020–December 2024
    Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center
    National Institutes of Health
    Role: Co-Investigator
    $19,101,902
  • August 2021–July 2023
    Advanced hybrid PET-MRI imaging pipeline at 9.4T
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • August 2021–July 2023
    Advanced hybrid PET-MRI imaging pipeline at 9.4T
    University at Buffalo
    Role: Principal Investigator
    $100,000
  • September 2017–July 2022
    The role of acute and chronic neuroinflammation on iron homeostasis and oligodendrocyte viability in the deep gray matter.
    The Dana Foundation
    Role: Principal Investigator
    $200,000
  • April 2016–March 2022
    Physiological mechanisms of a biomarker of recovery from a concussion
    National Institutes of Health
    Role: Co-Investigator
    $1,723,492
  • January 2020–December 2021
    Mapping magnetic properties of the aging brain
    German Academic Exchange Service
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    $29,700
  • March 2018–September 2021
    Clinical Brain Network Imaging with Canon 3T Gradient Upgrade
    Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc.
    Role: Co-Investigator
    $160,738
  • July 2019–June 2021
    Potential of inhibition of Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase as a therapeutic approach in blast induced cochlear and brain injury
    Hearing Health Foundation
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    $29,308
  • July 2016–July 2020
    The Use of fMRI to Evaluate the Effects of Sound Therapy–Pilot Study
    BUNY Buffalo State Research and Creativity Council
    Role: Co-Investigator
    $7,000
  • March 2017–September 2018
    Multimodal multiparametric brain mapping for pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment development in Krabbe Disease
    Role: Principal Investigator
    $48,000
  • September 2013–September 2014
    Disentangling of biophysical contributions to the MR-phase signal in the human brain by analyzing of the multipole field distribution due to the anisotropic magnetic susceptibility of the neuronal network
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • May 2014–May 2014
    UUP individual Development Award
    University At Buffalo
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • April 2013–April 2014
    ISMRM Seed Grant
    International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • July 2013–September 2013
    Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE)
    German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • January 2009–December 2011
    Doctoral scholarship
    Carl Zeiss Foundation
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • July 2010–August 2010
    Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE)
    German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
    Role: Co-Investigator
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Patents:

  • Separation of Biophysical Contrast Mechanisms in Biomedical Imaging (2019)
  • Method for high accurate extraction of information from at least two-dimensional measurement data of an object, which are superimposed by a signal from external sources (2010)
  • SAR hotspot reduction by temporal averaging in parallel transmission MRI (2010)
  • Real-time local and global SAR estimation for patient safety and improved scanning performance. (2009)

Journal Articles:

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Books and Book Chapters:

  • Schweser F, Preda M, Zivadinov R. (2018) Susceptibility Weighted MRI in Rodents at 9.4 Tesla. In: Methods in Molecular Biology—Preclinical MRI: Methods and Protocols. Springer

Abstracts:

  • Jochmann T, Haueisen J, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2021) DEEPOLE QUASAR–A deep learning-based approach for quantitative susceptibility and non-susceptibility phase mapping. 5th International Workshop on MRI Phase Contrast and QSM. Seoul, (Aug) Oral
  • Salman F, Bergsland N, Dwyer MG, Weinstock-Guttman B, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2021) Decline of both iron concentration and iron content within the thalamus of patients with mul-tiple sclerosis over two years. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (2805) Poster
  • Jochmann T, Jakimovski D, Küchler N, Zivadinov R, Haueisen J, Schweser F. (2021) Quantitative mapping of susceptibility and non-susceptibility frequency from gradient-echo phase images. 12th Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Symposium. Berlin, (Aug), (13) Poster
  • Benslimane I, Jochmann T, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2021) Unsupervised physics-informed deep learning (N=1) for solving inverse qMRI problems–Relaxometry and field mapping from multi-echo data. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (330) Oral
  • Jochmann T, Jakimovski D, Küchler N, Zivadinov R, Haueisen J, Schweser F. (2021) Quantitative mapping of susceptibility and non-susceptibility frequency with DEEPOLE QUASAR. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (789) Oral
  • Jochmann T, Schweser F, Küchler N, Jakimovski D, Zivadinov R, Haueisen J. (2021) Mapping Magnetic Susceptibility and Non-Susceptibility Sources from MRI Frequency Shift with Physics-informed Deep Learning. 6th International Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism. (Aug) Oral
  • Dhanraj R, Pol S, Paredes EC, Punugu V, Schweser F, Modica C, Bertolino N, Preda M, Dwyer MG, Zivadinov R. (2021) Detection of pathology sensitive multimodal MRI measures in Theiler’s Murine Encephalo-myelitis Virus Model of Chronic Demyelination. American Academy of Neurology (AAN). (Aug), (2803) Poster
  • Beadnall HN, Weinstock-Guttman B, Wang C, Hagemeier J, Bergsland N, Jakimovski D, Ra-manathan M, Ly L, Dwyer MG, Schweser F, Hardy T, Benedict RHB, Barnett M, Zivadinov R. (2020) Fingolimod therapy in real-world relapsing multiple sclerosis patients: cross-sectional and longitudinal assessment of cognition, quantitative MRI and deep gray matter quantitative susceptibility mapping. ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS 2020 (MSVirtual 2020). (Aug) Poster
  • Choudhary P, Pol S, Preda M, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2020) Detection of metabolic alterations in the thalamus of the TMEV mouse model of multiple scle-rosis at 9.4 Tesla. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (2937) Poster
  • Jochmann T, Haueisen J, Schweser F. (2020) How to train a Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM). Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (3195) Poster
  • Zivadinov R, Schweser F, Dwyer MG, Pol S. (2020) Effect of anti-muCD52 antibody on brain and spinal cord imaging markers of neurodegenera-tion, microglia, and macrophage activation in the Theiler’s Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus model of chronic demyelination. American Academy of Neurology (AAN). (Aug), (2486) Poster
  • Zivadinov R, Schweser F, Dwyer MG, Pol S. (2020) Detection of microglia activation in the Theiler’s Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus model of chronic demyelination using ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxides (USPIO) nanoparticle enhanced high-field imaging. American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Toronto, (Aug), (2) Oral
  • Salman F, Zivadinov R, Bergsland N, Dwyer MG, Weinstock-Guttman B, Schweser F. (2020) Trajectories of magnetic susceptibility in the pulvinar provide further evidence for accelerated decline of thalamic iron in multiple sclerosis. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (1385) Poster
  • Pol S, Liang Q, Schweser F, Schubert A, Preda M, Sveinsson M, Ramsamay D, Dwyer MG, Weckbecker G, Zivadinov R. (2020) Subcutaneous anti-CD20 antibody treatment delays gray matter atrophy in human myelin oli-godendrocyte glycoprotein-induced experimental Autoimmune encephalomyelitis mice. American Academy of Neurology (AAN). (Aug), (2130) Poster
  • Wack A, Schweser F, Slavakis K, McNerny K, Muldoon S, McGranor C, Kelly E, Miletich R, Wack D. (2020) Exploring Effects of Visual Based Activities Using DTI and Resting State Imaging. OHBM. (Aug), (1647) Poster
  • Wack D, McNerny K, Slavakis K, Muldoon S, Schweser F, Wack A, McGranor C, Kelly E, Miletich R. (2020) Resting State and DTI Imaging of Speech in Noise. OHBM. (Aug), (1643) Poster
  • Baader EF, Jochmann T, Haueisen J, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2020) U3-Net for Deep Vector QSM – Solving the Susceptibility Tensor Phase Model in Single-Orientation MRI. (Aug), (3202) Poster
  • Jochmann T, Kuechler N, Haueisen J, Schweser F. (2020) SOJU-Net—Denoising MR phase images with physics-informed deep learning using artificial Rician noise augmentation. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med. (Aug), (3196) Poster
  • Küchler N, Haueisen J, Schweser F, Jochmann T. (2020) A Fourier transformation based convolutional neural network layer for physics-informed deep learning of magnetic dipole inversion. German Society for Biomedical Engineering. (Aug), (p1570638759) Poster
  • Chandrasekharan P, Schweser F. (2020) Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Tool to Evaluate the Extent of Brain Injury in Term and Pre-term Ovine Models of Asphyxia. Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Scientific Meeting. (Aug) Poster
  • Rajabzadeh-Oghaz H, Chandra AR, Gutierrez L, Schweser F, Ionita CN, Siddiqui A, Tutino V, Gimi B, Krol A. (2019) High-resolution MRI of the mouse cerebral vasculature to study hemodynamic-induced vascular remodeling. Proc. SPIE 10953, Medical Imaging, 2019: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, (Jan) 49
  • Murdoch JB, Schweser F, Saleh MG, Edden, RAE. (2019) LCModel comparison of MEGA-PRESS and HERMES for GABA (and GSH) editing at 3T. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 2237
  • Choudhary P, Pol S, Preda M, Sveinsson M, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2019) Longitudinal 9.4 Tesla 1H MRS in the thalamus of the Theiler’s encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 3200
  • Choudhary P, Weinstock NI, Preda M, Shin D, Zivadinov R, Wrabetz L, Schweser F. (2019) Longitudinal Multi-modal Multi-parametric Imaging of the Twitcher mouse model of Krabbe Disease. PSMR, (Jan) 25
  • Prakash Krishnan Muthaiah V, Schweser F, Preda M. (2019) Optimization of structural imaging on Chinchilla Lanigera as a pre-clinical model of Blast TBI. Military Health System Research Symposium, (Jan)
  • Schweser F, Jochmann T, Zivadinov R. (2019) Overcoming the Rician Noise Bias of T2* Relaxometry with an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 4854
  • Choudhary P, Weinstock NI, Preda M, Wrabetz L, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2019) Pre- and post-symptomatic longitudinal metabolic assessment of the Twitcher mouse model of Krabbe Disease at 9.4 Tesla. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 3200
  • Smith Z, Bertolino N, Pol S, Preda M, Sveinsson M, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2019) Preclinical detection of leptomeningeal inflammation in the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 3222
  • Shi R, Jung J-H, Schweser F. (2019) Reduction of Gibbs artifacts with the Domain Decomposition Fourier Continuation Method. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 2459
  • Marques, JP, Bilgic B, Meineke J, Milovic C, Chan K-S, Langkammer C, Schweser F. (2019) Towards QSM Challenge 2.0: Creation and Evaluation of a Realistic Magnetic Susceptibility Phantom. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 1122
  • Jochmann T, Haueisen J, Zivadinov R, Schweser F. (2019) U2-Net for DEEPOLE QUASAR–A Physics-Informed Deep Convolutional Neural Network that Disentangles MRI Phase Contrast Mechanisms. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, (Jan) 320
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Professional Memberships:

  • Upstate New York Association Of Physicist In Medicine (UNYAPM) (2021–present)
  • American Association of University Professors (AAUP) (2021–present)
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN) (2016–present)
  • Association of the friends & sponsors of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2014–present)
  • German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV) (2013–present)
  • German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) (2012–present)
  • European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) (2011–present)
  • International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) (2010–present)
  • German chapter of the ISMRM (DS-ISMRM) (2009–present)
  • German Physical Society (DPG) (2002–present)

Presentations:

  • "Ironing Out Iron in Multiple Sclerosis: There Is Too Much Brain Iron! … or Is There Not Enough?" Neurology Grand Rounds (2021)
  • "Multimodal multiparametric brain mapping for pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment development in Krabbe Disease" Clinical and Translational Science Award Symposium (2019)

Service Activities:

  • National Institutes of Health 2022/01 Clinical Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumors (CNBT) meeting; Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group Member (2021)
  • Faculty Senate; Senator (2021–present)
  • Jezzard, P. & Choi, I.-Y. (Eds.). Advanced Neuro Magnetic Resonance Techniques and Applications. Academic Press (Elsevier).; Ad Hoc Book Chapter Reviewer (2021)
  • The New England Journal of Medicine; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2021–present)
  • Working Group for the procurement of a new human 3T MRI; Member (2020–present)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2020–present)
  • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Educational session: MR Physics for Scientists I.; Session chair (2020)
  • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Oral scientific session: Contrast Mechanisms—Acquisition and Fitting Methods; Session chair (2020)
  • Human Brain Mapping; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2020–present)
  • European Journal of Neurology; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2019–present)
  • Steering committee for the 2022 EPT-QSM Workshop in Lucca, Italy; Member (2019–present)
  • Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems; Program Committee Member (2019–2020)
  • Heliyon, Cell Press; Associate Editor for Clinical Research/Medical Imaging (2019–present)
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2018–present)
  • Frontiers Human Neuroscience; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2018–present)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2018–present)
  • Steering Committee of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Alternate (2017–present)
  • Neuroradiology; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2016–present)
  • Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center; Patient advisory council member (2016–present)
  • Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Imaging (2015–present)
  • NeuroImage: Clinical; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2015–present)
  • PLOS ONE; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2015–present)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2015–present)
  • BMC Medical Imaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2015–present)
  • NMR in Biomedicine; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • European Radiology; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Neuroimage; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • Journal of Neuroimaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2014–present)
  • ISMRM Ad Hoc Committee on Standards for Quantitative MR; Committee Member (2014–2015)
  • ISMRM Electro-Magnetic Tissue Properties Study Group; Committee Member (2014–2015)
  • Second international workshop on MRI phase contrast and quantitative susceptibility mapping; Committee Member (2013)
  • Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2013–present)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2013–present)
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2013–present)
  • Frontiers in Biomedical Physics; Editorial Board Member (2013–present)
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2012–present)
  • NeuroImage; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2012–present)
  • European Radiology; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2012–present)
  • First international workshop on MRI phase contrast and quantitative susceptibility mapping; Organizing Committee Member (2010–2011)
  • Zeitschrift fuer Medizinische Physik; Ad hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2010–present)
  • Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience Pilot Program, The University of Rochester, USA; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, FOM, The Netherlands; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • FWF Austrian Science Fund, Austria; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • Israeli Ministry of Science & Technology, French-Israeli Cooperation program, Israel; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grants, Canada; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • PennState Clinical and Translational Science Institute, CTSA Pilot Studies Program, USA; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, USA; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Spark program, Switzerland; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), The Investment Subsidy ZonMw/NWO BIG, The Netherlands; Scientific Grant Reviewer
  • UK Medical Research Council, Clinical Research Training Fellowship—Pre Doc; Scientific Grant Reviewer

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6045C Clinical and Translational Research Center
875 Ellicott Street
Buffalo, New York 14203
Phone: (716) 888-4718
schweser@buffalo.edu