Fabian Kiessling#
| Membership Number: | 7223 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://exmi.rwth-aachen.de/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7341-0399 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Co-Founder and co-owner of the SonoMAC GmbH
- 2018 - present 10% affiliation at Fraunhofer MEVIS as coordinator of the Digital Information Technology Group in Aachen
- 2008 - present Full Professor and Chair: Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University
- 2008 - 2022 Co-Founder and "Scientific Manager" of the invivoContrast GmbH (the company was successfully sold in 2022)
- 2006 - 2008 Head of the Junior Group Molecular Imaging, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 - 2006 Head of Molecular Diagnostics Group, Department of Biophysics and Medical Radiation Physics, DKFZ
- 2004 - 2006 Resident at Depts. of Gynecological and Diagnostic Radiology, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany (done in parallel as part of the professional training)
- 2003 - 2004 Resident at the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, Department of Oncological Medicine (done in parallel as part of the professional training)
- 2001 - 2003 Resident in Diagnostic Radiology, Dept. of Radiology (DKFZ) (done in parallel as part of the professional training)
Fields of Scholarship
- Theranostics
- Radiology and nuclear imaging probes and devices
- Angiogenesis
- Radiomics
- Molecular Imaging
- Drug delivery
- Superresolution ultrasound imaging (ultrasound localization microscopy)
- Nanomedicine
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar – Lifetime (Discipline: Digital imaging)
- 2019/20/21/22/23/24 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
- 2023 Aachen Animal Welfare Award
- 2022 Fellow of the RWTH Aachen University
- 2022 Full member of the Sigma Xi Society
- 2020 Fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society
- 2019 & 2020 Awarded by “Expertscape” as “World Expert” in Nanomedicine
- Since 2019 Awarded by “Expertscape” as “World Expert” in Molecular Imaging
- 2019 Thünen Research Award to the author team of Proc Natl Acad Sci 2019, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817738116
- 2014 - 2016 Member of the Margulis award nomination committee of the Radiological Society of North America
- 2008 & 2009 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award
- 2006 Dr. Emil-Salzer-Prize for Cancer Research
- 2006 Richtzenhain-Prize of the German Cancer Research Center
