Professor Schnabel is Chair of Computational Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London. She has 30 years’ experience in developing computational imaging solutions, with a focus on multi-modality imaging for cardiovascular diseases.

Julia holds a a PhD in Computer Science from University College London (University of London), and a Diplom (MSc equivalent) in Informatics from the Technical University of Berlin. Before joining King’s as Chair in 2015, she held postdoctoral appointments at University College London (1997-98), University Medical Center Utrecht NL (1998-9), and King’s College London (1999-2004), and again University College London (2005-07), after which she was appointed Associate Professor in Engineering Science (Medical Imaging) at the University of Oxford in 2007, where she became Full Professor of Engineering Science in 2014. She was also Visiting Professor at Nagoya University, Japan in 2014.

Julia was elected Fellow of IEEE "For contributions to medical image computing” in 2021, Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Intervention (MICCAI) Society "For contributions to multiple areas of medical image computing, and for distinguished service to the MICCAI conference and Society” in 2018, and Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) in 2019, where she is part of the ELLIs Health programme. She is an Executive/Founding Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning in Biomedical imaging (MELBA), Steering Board member of IEEE Transactions on Medical imaging, Editorial Board Member of the Medical Image Analysis Journal, and General Chair of the MICCAI 2024 conference.