Franz Pfeiffer, Professor of Biomedical Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of the Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering (MIBE) at TUM, specializes in biomedical X-ray physics. For his outstanding contributions to science, technology, and research education, he is awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics by the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC). The award ceremony will take place in Geneva in December.
Prof. Franz Pfeiffer develops new imaging methods for the early detection and investigation of diseases such as cancer, lung diseases, and osteoporosis. His most important contribution to science is the discovery and exploration of dark-field X-ray imaging and its successful transfer into clinical practice, with a particularly high diagnostic benefit for lung diseases.
EURASC honors Prof. Pfeiffer with the Blaise Pascal Medal for his pioneering research in biomedical imaging. His work on X-ray phase-contrast and dark-field imaging has driven major advances in medical diagnostics and has shaped biomedical imaging in both research and clinical settings.
Since 2003, EURASC has awarded the medal, named after the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher Blaise Pascal, annually to individuals for their outstanding contributions to science, technology, and research education.
About the awardee:
Prof. Pfeiffer studied physics at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University (1999) and received his doctorate at the Institut Laue-Langevin in France and the University of Saarbrücken (2003). Following subsequent positions as a post-doc in Urbana-Champaign (USA) and as a scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland (2008), he was appointed Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (2008). He was appointed to the Chair of Biomedical Physics at TUM in 2009. In 2016, Prof. Pfeiffer became Director of what is now MIBE.
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Scientific Contact
Prof. Dr. Franz Pfeiffer
Technical University of Munich
Professor of Biomedical Physics
franz.pfeiffer(at)tum.de
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Original article: https://www.bioengineering.tum.de/en/news/details/prof-franz-pfeiffer-erhaelt-blaise-pascal-medaille