Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington Medical Center,
Seattle, WA, USA
 | juergen@uw.edu |
Juergen studied Medical Engineering in Germany and Medical Instrumentation in the UK. After a brief spell in industry he completed his PhD in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy in the UK. This was followed by a postdoctoral position as Senior Fellow at the University of Washington Medical Center, where he was part of an industry sponsored international research consortium on intensity modulated radiation therapy and also worked in close collaboration with the Department of Radiology on the integration of PET imaging into treatment planning. He then moved to the University Hospital in Wuerzburg Germany where he completed a Medical Physics residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology and then worked as a Clinical Medical Physicist. Besides clinical work Juergen was strongly involved in research investigating the possibility of real-time correction of respiratory induced tumor movement using a robotic couch and he was also part of an international consortium on image-guided radiation therapy. In 2006 he accepted a position in his wife's home country, New Zealand, as Senior Lecturer in Medical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He became the Director of Medical Physics in 2009. During his time at Canterbury he taught several postgraduate courses in Medical Physics and supervised about 30 postgraduate students in all areas of Medical Physics. He was also the Chair of the NZ branch of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM). In 2012 Juergen returned to the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Washington Medical Center. He currently is a Professor and Clinical Physics Lead at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
