Prof. Dr. Linda Knutsson is a Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Medical Radiation Physics at Lund University, Sweden. She was previously the MR research group leader at Lund University. She received the Kurt Lidén’s Award 2015 from the Swedish Society of Radiation Physics for her research contributions. In 2024, she was awarded Fellow by the ESMRMB for her "important contributions to the development of methods for human perfusion measurements.” Dr. Knutsson graduated with a master's in physics and continued obtaining a doctoral degree in medical physics at Lund University. Dr. Knutsson has served on many ISMRM committees, including the Annual Meeting Program Committee and the Board of Trustees. She has also been the Chair of the ISMRM perfusion study group. She was the president of the ISMRM Nordic Chapter from 2012–2016. In addition, she has contributed to the ESMRMB by serving on the executive board as secretary. Dr. Knutsson resides on the editorial boards of the journals Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Reports, NMR in Biomedicine, and Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine. Dr. Knutsson’s research mainly focuses on perfusion-related measurements, especially BBB permeability measurements using DCE and DSC MRI.  Dr. Knutsson’s research also includes an emerging technique called CEST MRI.