Guido Buonincontri, Ph.D., is a physicist who has been working in the field of MRI for approximately 10 years, alternating between pre-clinical and clinical MRI research. For his Ph.D. program and for a following post-doc he worked on the development and application of novel MRI techniques for cardiovascular assessments in small animals at the University of Cambridge. As a physicist working at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience first and then at the Department of Medicine, his role was to build on the latest MRI techniques to enable studies in basic science and pharmacology, with a main focus on cardiac applications. Currently, he works in Tuscany, Italy, for Fondazione Stella Maris and Fondazione Imago7, two non-profit research foundations part of a children's hospital with close ties to the University of Pisa. Guido has been a Young Investigator Fellow for INFN CSV, as well as a EU Horizon 2020 Marie-Curie Individual Fellow, focussing on fast and quantitative MRI. He is currently conducting an Italian Ministry of Health funded clinical trial assessing fast quantitative MRI in children and challenging adults and is enjoying interdisciplinary and international collaborations.Joshua D. Kaggie, Ph.D., is a physicist and researcher at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Radiology. Born near Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., Dr. Kaggie moved to Cambridge in the UK following his Ph.D. Dr. Kaggie did undergraduate research in gamma ray astronomy, which included the manufacture of electronics and the simulation of Cerenkov showers. Dr. Kaggie then moved into Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) research for his Ph.D., where his primary focus was the development of MRI techniques for sodium imaging, which included the development of MRI transmit/receive equipment, simultaneous multinuclear imaging methods, and non-Cartesian acquisition/reconstruction. At the University of Cambridge, Dr. Kaggie has been primarily funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the Biomedical Research Council, and a European Union Horizon 2020 grant. The collaboration between all three authors began as a result of a Royal Society travel grant, when Dr. Kaggie arrived at Cambridge and as Dr. Buonincontri was leaving Cambridge for Pisa. This collaboration has proven very useful for the development of software and ideas between centers.Martin Graves is a Consultant Clinical Scientist at Cambridge University Hospitals with over 35 years' experience in both clinical and research aspects of MRI. He received his B.Sc. (1984) and M.Sc. (1987) from the University of London and his Ph.D. (2010) from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the UK Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). He has been awarded Honorary Membership of the UK Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) (2016) and the IPEM Academic Gold Medal (2018). He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications as well as co-authoring a number of textbooks including MRI: From Picture to Proton (CUP 2003, 2007, and 2016), Physics MCQs for the Part 1 FRCR (CUP, 2011), and The Physics and Mathematics of MRI (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016).
