- The Governing Board consists of the Executive Committee and the elected members of the Council. It defines the main direction of the society.
- The ESMI Executive Committee consists of the current President, Vice President (=President Elect), Secretary, Treasurer, and the immediate Past President.
- The ESMI Council is elected every two years by all ESMI members. Term in office is two years with a maximum of three consecutive terms.
- The General Assembly consists of all ESMI members with voting rights.
The President’s term in office and correspondingly that of the Vice-President and Past-President is one year. The period is defined from one annual meeting (EMIM) to the next.
Executive Committee
Tim Witney – President 2026/2027
Professor of Molecular Imaging, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London, UK
Jolanda de Vries – Past President (President 2025/26)
Head of Department of Medical BioSciences & Research Group Leader, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Greetje vande Velde – Vice President (= President Elect 2027/28)
Associate Professor, Biomedical MRI, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium
Cornelius Faber – Treasurer
Professor of Experimental Magnetic Resonance, University of Münster, Germany
Twan Lammers – Secretary
Professor at Dept. of Nanomedicine and Theranostics, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Elected Council members 2026-2028
- Nicola Belcari – Pisa Italy
- Daniele Bertoglio – Antwerp Belgium
- Philipp Boehm-Sturm – Berlin Germany
- Simon Cherry – London, UK / Davis, USA
- Roel Deckers Utrecht – The Netherlands
- Nick Devoogdt – Brussels Belgium
- Gilbert Fruhwirth – London UK
- Jan Grimm – New York USA
- Claudia Kuntner-Hannes – Vienna Austria
- Steffi Lehmann – Zurich Switzerland
- Andre F. Martins – Tübingen Germany
- Teresa Matias Correia – Faro Portugal
- Willemien Menke-van der Houven van Oordt – Amsterdam The Netherlands
- Daniel Razansky – Zurich Switzerland
- Beatriz Salinas – Madrid Spain
- Roger Schibli – Villigen/Zurich Switzerland
- Noam Shemesh – Rehovot, Israel / Lisbon, Portugal
- Alexandros M. Sofias – Aachen Germany
- Adriana Tavares – Edinburgh UK
- Nadja Van Camp – Fontenay-aux-Roses France
- Wolfgang Weber – Munich Germany
- Bettina Weigelin – Tübingen Germany
