Irène Buvat, PhD, Senior researcher at CNRS, Head of the Inserm Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology, Institut Curie, Orsay, France

Irène Buvat received her PhD degree in “Particle and Nuclear Physics” from Paris Sud University, France, in 1992 and oriented her research towards applications of Nuclear Physics to Medical Imaging. After spending one year at University College London, UK, and two years at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, she entered the French “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” in 1995.

She is currently the head of the Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology at Institut Curie in Orsay, France. Her research interests focus on developing quantification methods to make the most of SPECT and PET data coupled with CT or MRI for understanding biological mechanisms and optimizing patient management. She was one of the initiators of the collaboration developing the GATE Monte Carlo opensource simulation tool for tomography and radiotherapy applications. She is highly involved in radiomics/artificial intelligence research to enhance the role of PET/CT and PET/MR in precision medicine. She promotes open-access to high-standard research material, sharing the LIFEx software for radiomic studies. She is a member of the SNMMI AI task force and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.