Dr. Vladimir Juras 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. 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 40 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).