Martin Schneider received his MD from Tuebingen, Germany and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His PhD work was focused on in vivo imaging of angiogenesis under drug treatment and photoacoustic imaging of endogeneous chromophores. Martin joined the Gambhir Lab at Stanford in 2019 where he worked on optical phantoms and clinical photoacoustic imaging trials. He received the Cardiovascular Award from FUJIFILM VisualSonics.