Max Viergever received the MSc degree in applied mathematics in 1972 and the DSc degree with a thesis on cochlear mechanics in 1980, both from Delft University of Technology. From 1972 to 1988 he was Assistant/Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at this university. Since 1988 he has been Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Imaging at Utrecht University, since 1989 Adjunct Professor of Physics and since 1996 Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the same university, since 1996 Scientific Director of the Image Sciences Institute of the University Medical Center Utrecht, and as of 1998 Director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Image Sciences (ImagO). He is (co)author of over 350 refereed scientific articles (abstracts excluded) on biophysics and medical image processing, guest editor of eight journal issues, (co)author/editor of 15 books, and has served as supervisor of 55 PhD students. His research interests comprise all aspects of medical imaging. Max Viergever is a board member of IAPR, IPMI and MICCAI, is editor of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision of Kluwer Academic Publishers, editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, editor of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, and has acted as associate editor, guest editor or editorial board member of nine more international journals. He is coauthor of two best journal articles (Comput.~\& Graphics 1996, J.~Comput.~Assist.~Tomogr.~1997), coauthor of eight best conference presentations, has received two citation awards for most frequently cited articles (IEEE T.~Med.~Imaging 1988, 1995), is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK (1999), an Elected Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (2002), a recipient of the Catharijne Award (2002), and an honorary member of the Dutch Society for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (2003). For additional details, see www.isi.uu.nl.