Ap. Prof. Vladimir Juras, PhD, has a faculty position at Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy at Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, obtained PhD degree in Bionics and Biomechanics at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia and did his PostDoc at Medical University of Vienna. In 2019, he received a Fulbright scholarship for a research stay at NYU in New York City, USA. The main research interests are non-invasive quantitative imaging methods for assessment of connective tissues such as cartilage, meniscus, tendon, sub-chondral bone, and ligaments including collagen sensitive methods (T2/T2*) as well as proteoglycan sensitive methods (dGEMRIC, sodium MRI, gagcEST). His special focus is on rapidly relaxing tissues like tendons and ligaments using bi-component T2* analysis. Dr. Juras is also interested in the modern post-processing methods in cartilage research including machine learning (convolutional neural networks, logistic regression), texture analysis (GLCM) and multi-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Juras published and co-authored more than 65 papers mostly in the field of musculoskeletal quantitative MRI, reviewed number of papers for scientific journals (European Radiology, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, NMR In Biomedicine etc.) and is member of many societies (International Society For Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, International Cartilage Repair Society, Radiological Society of North America).