Matthias became the Director of the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging in early 2024, twenty years after joining the MGH Radiology Department as a postdoctoral fellow. Before then, he was trained in internal medicine and cardiology at Würzburg University and obtained his MD degree at Heidelberg University in Germany. Throughout his career, Matthias has applied imaging to understand the role of inflammation, in particular the innate immune system, in cardiovascular disease. His own lab focusses on imaging the heart, arteries and the hematopoietic system, where many disease-promoting immune cells originate.

Serving as the director of the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Matthias strives to foster collaboration between basic scientists, clinicians and engineers to achieve interdisciplinary progress on today's most pressing clinical problems.  This mission is rooted in the insight that complexity of clinical problems requires expertise beyond what one person can provide. Working with others in teams means learning from them, one of the most cherished activities we get to engage in.