Rob Holtackers obtained his MSc degree in Medical Engineering with cum laude distinction from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2015, followed by a four-month research internship at King’s College London. Later that year, he began his PhD at the Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), which he completed with cum laude distinction. Since 2017, Rob has been working as an MRI Physicist in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Imaging at MUMC. He is currently Assistant Professor and is responsible for the development, validation, clinical implementation of advanced cardiac MRI techniques. He also holds visiting appointments as Senior Lecturer at King’s College London (UK) and Assistant Professor at the Lausanne University Hospital (CH). Rob is an active member of the SCMR, EACVI, ISMRM, ESCR, and ECR, serves as Section Editor for Topics in MRI and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, and is a member of the EACVI cardiac MRI examination committee.