Scholar
Alexander Hammers
Google Scholar ID: QFkozOIAAAAJ
School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
13,561
H-index
46
i10-index
153
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Author on about 200 articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters
- - WoS h index 44, Google Scholar 53
- - Affiliated with several professional organizations and has won several distinctions
- - Regularly reviews for numerous journals and grant-giving bodies
Research Experience
- - Positions: Professor, Head of PET Imaging Centre, Deputy Head of School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences
- - Work experience: Focused on using quantified Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to understand mechanisms of neurological disease; structural neuroimaging using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and anatomical segmentation using a large manually annotated brain atlas database created by his group over the past decade
- - Application areas: Epilepsies and neurodegenerative diseases
- - Goal: To benefit individual patients through the clinical application of neuroscience, e.g., through classification with machine-learning techniques or the combination of MRI and PET
Education
- - Degrees: MD (RWTH Aachen, Germany), PhD (University of London)
- - Schools: RWTH Aachen, Germany; University of London
- - Advisors: Not mentioned
- - Time: Not specifically given
- - Specialization: MR imaging of the hippocampus; PET investigations in focal epilepsy
Background
- - Research interests: Using imaging to elucidate the neurobiology of epilepsy; work towards noninvasive determination of epileptogenic areas during presurgical workup; determine normal and abnormal patterns of brain changes over time, including in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease); automatically classify medical images; interest in imaging methodology, including the development of simultaneous MRI-PET.
- - Professional field: Neuroimaging, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- - Brief introduction: Alexander Hammers is a Neurologist with a particular interest in epilepsy. He is Professor of Imaging and Neuroscience and Head of the King’s College London & Guy’s and St Thomas’ PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital. He also serves as Deputy Head of School, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences.
