Prof. Dr. Bernd Pichler is director of the Werner Siemens Imaging Center and chair of the Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Clinic of Radiology, University of Tübingen, Germany. He earned his PhD in physics at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich, in 2002 and subsequently worked at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA. In 2005 Bernd Pichler became head of the Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology at the University of Tübingen. In December 2007, Dr. Pichler accepted the call of the University of Tübingen for a full (W3) professorship in “Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology”.  In 2008 he became head of the Radiopharmacy and in 2011 both, the Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging of the Werner Siemens-Foundation and the Radiopharmacy joined, to become the Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, with Prof. Pichler as director and chair of the department. His work includes multi-modality imaging in oncology, immunology and neurology as well as the development of new imaging technologies and innovative imaging probes.