Technische Universität München

Axel Haase was born and educated in Hof (State of Bavaria) in 1952. He studied physics at the Universities of Erlangen and Giessen and received his diploma in 1977. He was awarded Dr.rer.nat. at the University of Giessen in 1980. From 1978 until 1989 he was working as a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In 1982 he spend one year as a postdoc at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. Axel Haase qualified as professor (Habilitation) for biophysical chemistry at the University of Frankfurt. Since 1989 he holds a Chair of Experimental Physics (Biophysics) at the University of Wuerzburg. He is past President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine (ESMRMB) and was President of the University of Wuerzburg from 2003 until September 2009. In October 2009 he was delegated to TUM and became Carl von Linde Senior Fellow at TUM-IAS. Axel Haase is the director of the Institute of Medical Engineering (Zentralinstitut für Medizintechnik) at TUM.

1982 Liebig Fellow of the “Fonds der Chemischen Industrie”, Germany

1987 Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG

1989 European Magnetic Resonance Tomography Award

1990 Annual Award of the “European Workshop on Magnetic Resonance in Medicine”

1991 Gold Medal Award of the “International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)”, San Francisco, USA

Since 2001 Fellow of the “Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Munich

1. D. Matthaei, J. Frahm, A. Haase, W. Hänicke „Regional Physiologic Functions Depicted by Sequences of Rapid NMR Images“ Lancet 2 (8460): 893-893 (1985).

2. A. Haase, J. Frahm, D: Matthaei, W. Hänicke, K.D. Merbolt „FLASH Imaging Rapid NMR Imaging Using Low Flip Angle Pulses“ J Magn Res 67: 258-266 (1986).

3. A. Haase „Snapshot FLASH MRI, Applications to T1, T2, and Chemical-Shift Imaging“ Magn Res Med 13: 77-89 (1990).

4. W. R. Bauer, K.-H. Hiller, F. Roder, S. Neubauer, A. Fuchs, C. Große Boes, R. Lutz, P. Gaudron, K. Hu, A. Haase, G. Ertl „Investigation of Coronary Vessels in Microscopic Dimensions by Two- and Three-dimensional NMR Microscopic Imaging in the Isolated Rat Heart“ Circulation 92: 968-977 (1995).

5. E. Kuchenbrod, A. Haase, R. Benkert, H. Schneider, U. Zimmermann „Quantitative NMR Microscopy on Intact Plants“ Magn Res Imag 13: 447-455 (1995).

6. A. Metzler, M. Izquierdo, A. Ziegler, W. Köckenberger, E. Komor, M. Von Kienlin, A. Haase, M. Décorps „Plant Histochemistry by Correlation Peak Imaging“ Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 11912-11915 (1995).

7. M. Rokitta, A.D. Peuke, U. Zimmermann, A. Haase „Dynamic Studies of Phloem and Xylem Flow in Fully Differentiated Plants by Fast Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Microimaging“ Protoplasma 209: 126-131 (1999).

8. F. Wiesmann, J. Ruff, K.-H. Hiller, E. Rommel, A. Haase, S. Neubauer „Developmental changes of cardiac function and mass assessed with MRI in neonatal, juvenile, and adult mice“ Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 278(2): H652-H657 (2000).

9. M.A. Griswold, P.M. Jakob, R.M. Heidemann, M. Nittka, V. Jellus, J. Wang, B. Kiefer, A. Haase „Generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA)“ Magn Res Med 47(6): 1202-1210 (2002).

10. D. Haddad, F. Schaupp, R. Brandt, G. Manz, R. Menzel, A. Haase „NMR imaging of the honeybee brain“ J Insect Science, 4:7 (2004).

His research interests focus on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He has developed many MRI techniques and was co-inventor of FLASH MRI, a patent for fast MRI granted to the Max Planck Society. He has applied many innovative MRI and MR spectroscopy methods to biomedicine, including cardiac and neurological studies.