EUROSON 2009 Edinburgh UK ‐ Young Investigator’s Award was presented jointly to Esther Leung (The Netherlands) and Moritz Palmowski (Germany)

Esther Leung Curriculum Vitae

Esther Leung was born in 1981 in Hong Kong. She received her M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics with honours from the Delft University of Technology in 2005. The subject of her master thesis was motion compensation for intravascular ultrasound strain imaging. Recently, she received her Ph.D. degree with honours. This research, performed at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, resulted in the thesis "automated analysis of 3D stress echocardiography". Her research interests include medical ultrasound, image processing, and clinical applications development.