Dr Özlem Ipek

Özlem Ipek is lecturer of ultra-high Field MRI engineering at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London. After completing physics (METU, Turkey) and applied physics degree (TU/e, Netherlands), she received her PhD degree in 2014 from Utrecht University, Netherlands. She was a scientist and managing director of the RF lab at EPFL, Switzerland before moving to KCL. Her research interest is developing, designing and prototyping MRI hardware for 7 Tesla MRI scanner and clinical MRI scanners for body and neuro imaging. She supervised over 12 student projects, 3 master thesis and several PhD students including one as an official co-supervisor. She has over ten years of experience on 7 Tesla MRI parallel-transmit RF technology and MRI safety management.