Olivier Beuf is a senior CNRS researcher, currently director of the CREATIS research lab. Author of more than 120 international publications, 3 patents and more than 350 communications, he managed or participated to several international and national projects with academic or industrial partners. He has extensive experience in clinical and preclinical Magnetic Resoance Imaging applications as well as a deep understanding of associated instrumental and methodological aspects. Part of his work focused on multiple parametric quantitative MRI and in the last few years on the benefit for tumor characterization and MRI-based radiotherapy planning.