Optical Coherence Tomography: Technology and Applications

About

Wolfgang Drexler received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1991 and 1995 respectively at the Technical University of Vienna Austria. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University Wales UK. Since 2010 he is an Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University UK. Since October 2009 he is a Full Professor of Medical Physics and the Head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna Austria and is also Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Laser Development and their Application in Medicine since 2011. He spent 2 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge USA received the Austrian START Award from the Austrian Science Fund in 2001 the COGAN Award from ARVO in 2007 the Fear Memorial Award in 2008 the Gabriel Coscas Medal in 2009 the EVER Acta Silver Medal in 2010 the DOGsInnovators Award in 2011 as well as the Edridge Green Medal from The Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2012.He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science and has published more than 160 publications (including Nature Medicine and PNAS) in peer reviewed journals and is first co-author or corresponding author of more than 400 conference proceedings or abstracts resulting in a h-index of 49.  His groups publications have been cited more than 7700 times in the last 10 years with more than 900 citations in years 2008 2010 and 2011. He is (Co)Editor of 11 books including Optical Coherence Tomography: Technology and Applications (2008). Wolfgang Drexler gave more than 160 invited or keynote talks since 2000 and has accomplished more than  9.4 million research grant income in the last decade.