Claudia Kuntner-Hannes
Keynote speaker “PET is Wonderful” 2023

Ass.-Prof. PD Dr. Claudia Kuntner-Hannes studied Technical Physics at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. She finished her PhD thesis in 2003 at the Vienna University of Technology and CERN (Switzerland), where she was working on detector materials used in preclinical PET scanners. She received her “venia docendi” (Habilitation) at the Medical University of Vienna in 2011. She worked at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology from 2004 – 2020 as a Senior Scientist, building up the preclinical molecular imaging facility and making it a state-of-the-art imaging center. Since 2021 she is now associated with the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy of the Medical University of Vienna and became Assistant Professor associated with the Medical Imaging Cluster in 03/2021. Claudia Kuntner-Hannes is the author of 81 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with 2055 citations and a Hirsch (h) index of 27. Furthermore, she is the editor and co-author of one book and two book chapters. Her research focuses on methodological aspects of preclinical imaging and pharmacokinetic modeling of PET data. She acquired several grant-funded research projects in collaboration with national or international partner institutions and supervised PhD, Masters, and Bachelors students.