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Classical school education, medical school and residency in Berlin. Doctorate in Medical History (Medical Climatology). Senior Research Associate, State University of New York at Stony Brook (laboratory of Paul C. Lauterbur, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003). Adjunct Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium; Professor of Medical Imaging at the University of Trondheim, Norway. President, board member, scientific consultant or adviser to international organizations and foundations (among them World Health Organization, European Commission, UN Industrial Development Organization, the Nobel Committee). At present, President of the Council of The Round Table Foundation (TRTF).
Researcher in biophysics from 1958. MD 1964. PhD Biophysics 1969. Professor and Chairman of Radiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1984-2006. Permanent member of the Nobel Assembly for Physiology or Medicine 1986-2006; President-Elect and President of the Nobel Assembly 2002-2003. Chairman of the Board, Center for Medical Imaging Science and Visualization, Linköping University. Consulting Professor at Strategic Center for Biomedical Imaging, Stanford University. Numerous awards, grants, and honorary memberships. Member of the Council of TRTF.
Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus) and Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Mons, Belgium. Former postdoctoral fellow of Paul C. Lauterbur, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003). Author of around 200 publications in the field of chemistry and contrast agents for medical imaging. Currently Director of International Partnerships, Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Charleroi, Belgium. Member of the Council of TRTF.
Degree in Psychology from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. M.Sc. in Psychology and post-graduate studies in Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A. Lecturer at the University of Maryland in Europe, and Researcher for the Norwegian Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research (SINTEF), Trondheim, Norway. Scientific editor for TRTF and major publishing houses. Patron of the "Humanitarian Aid" Chapter and Member of the Council of TRTF.
Director of the Medical Imaging Department and of the Research Group on Biomedical Imaging, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe; Chairman, Radiology Department, Hospital Quirón; Valencia, Spain. Board member and president of several learned societies; numerous awards, grants, and honorary memberships. Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of four scientific journals. Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine. Recipient of the Pro Academia Prize in 2013.
Director, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany; Assoc. Professor of Egyptology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Worked at German Archaeological Institute, Cairo; State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich. Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Curator and Chief Curator, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, U.S.A. Advisor to several governments and institutions. Chairperson of the Advisory Council of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris. Recipient of the Pro Academia Prize in 2015.
President of the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science (ACAC), Bogotá; Professor Emeritus of Physics at the National University of Colombia; member of the Colombian Academy of Sciences; former president of the Colombian Society of Physics; former Director of the Technical Physics group of the National Federation of Coffee Growers; member of the Council of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (1984), member of the Board of Directors of the Banco de la Republica Foundation. Recipient of the Pro Academia Prize in 2017.
From 1964 until 1969 Dr. Roth studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in chemistry 1973. After some more years in Berlin he became a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (1979-1980), returned to Berlin and then worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He became Associate Professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1990, Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the Free University of Berlin in 2000. From 1991 until 2000 he was the Director of the interdisciplinary Dahlem Conferences in Berlin. Recipient of the Pro Academia Prize in 2021.
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