EUROSON 2013 – Young Investigator Award Winner David Maresca

David Maresca was born in Paris on June 16, 1983. He followed his secondary education at the Lycée Claude Monet from 1994 to 2001. In 2003, he started his university education in Physics at the University Paris Diderot. In the frame of his studies, he completed various assignments at the interface of physics and other disciplines such as astronomy (Hα kinematics of isolated galaxies), journalism (brief news items for Sciences et Avenir magazine), philosophy (epistemology, evolutionary theories), art (pigment analysis of the Mona Lisa with near infrared spectroscopy) and medicine (transcranial hyperthermia with ultrasound). He received a Master of Science in Ultrasound Physics in 2007 after the completion of his master’s thesis, entitled “Single element ultrasonic imaging based on a variable refractive structure”, at Philips High Tech Campus, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Subsequently, he was appointed for a year as research scientist in experimental echocardiography at Philips Research and co-authored a patent on an acoustic fluid lens for ultrasound imaging. In October 2008, he joined the Thorax Centre Department of Biomedical Engineering of Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to carry out a PhD in harmonic intravascular ultrasound imaging under the supervision of Nico de Jong and Antonius F. W. van der Steen. In August 2013 he started a postdoctoral fellowship in ultrafast echocardiography at the Institut Langevin, Paris, France.