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Professor Habib Zaidi, an Algerian-Swiss scientist, is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and facult at the medical school of Geneva University. He also hold joint faculty appointments at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), University of Southern Denmark , University of Cergy-Pontoise (IAS), France, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran).

Early life and education
Habib Zaidi was born in Algeria where he attended his high school and obtained a Bacjelor degree in electronic engineering in 1990 from Setif University. He then started a post-graduate training in medical physics culminating with a master's degree and then a doctorate (Ph.D) from Geneva University in 2000. He received the title of Privat-Docent habilitation (PD) from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva for his work on the qualitative and quantitative improvement of clinical images in positron emission tomography. He joined the nuclear medicine department and molecular imaging of Geneva University Hospital, where he is currently chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging laboratory.

Research and career
Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 570 publications, including 290 peer-reviewed journal articles in prominent journals (ISI-h index=47/60 Web of Science™|Google scholar, >12’860+ citations), 250 conference proceedings and 38 book chapters and is the editor of four textbooks on Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine, Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging, Molecular Imaging of Small Animals and Computational anatomical animal models.

Awards and Honors
Prof. Zaidi has been elevated to the grade of fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers and by the medical imaging community at large since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003 Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE, the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the prestigious (100’000$) 2010 kuwait Prize of Applied sciences (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize) given by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for "outstanding accomplishments in Biomedical technology", the 2013 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award given by the AAPM , the 2013 Vikram Sarabhai Oration Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India (SNMI) , the 2015 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Award given by the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) , the 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize given by the European Physical Society (EPS) and the 2019 Khwarizmi International Award given by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST).