Anthony H. Aletras serves as Director and Professor of Biomedicine and Imaging Technologies in the Laboratory of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He also serves as a part-time Researcher in the Department of Clinical Physiology of the Medical Faculty at Lund University, Sweden. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As a NATO Fellow he received his MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1993. He received his Biomedical Engineering PhD degree in advanced MRI techniques from The Ohio State University in 1996. He did his post-doctoral studies supported by an Intramural Training Award Fellowship at the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics of the National Heart, Lund and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, under the leadership of Dr. Robert S. Balaban. He served in the same NIH laboratory as a Staff Fellow and then as a Staff Scientist until 2010. He was appointed Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly, where he also served as chairman 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 myocardial strain imaging and CEST contrast agents. Area-At-Risk determination based on intramyocardial edema is his most cited work. His current research interests include new methodologies for cardiovascular fetal MRI.