Kris Thielemans
Professor In Medical Imaging Physics at Algorithms and Software Consulting Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKris Thielemans is a Professor in Medical Imaging Physics at UCL with 28 years’ experience translating theoretical physics and advanced data processing into practical improvements for PET, SPECT and hybrid imaging. He leads academic groups and open-source projects (notably STIR) while running a consultancy that delivers clinically focused algorithms for image reconstruction, motion correction and statistical estimation. His work bridges theory and deployment—shaping international collaborations, clinical applications, and standards for quantitative image quality. A hands-on developer as well as a principal investigator, he has contributed to infrastructure projects like CMake to streamline scientific builds, reflecting attention to reproducible research and engineering robustness.
28 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenLicentiaat, Physics, Licentiaat, Physics at Rijksuniversiteit Gent
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (6)
hdf10
build-system10
cmake10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
fortran6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on improving the CMake build system's interaction with the HDF5 library. Their commits addressed issues related to finding and linking HDF5 libraries, ensuring the correct inclusion of debug and release versions. Furthermore, they corrected and clarified the list of imported targets and improved debug output related to the HDF5 dependencies. They also removed unnecessary de-duplication of HDF5 libraries, optimizing the build process.
cppcmakeupstream
UCL/STIR-website
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years
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