Dr. Michael Albert Thomas is currently a Professor of Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of California—Los Angeles (UCLA). After his Ph.D. in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science in the early 1980s, he carried out post-doctoral work at Purdue University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), and the University of California—San Francisco (UCSF). After three years as a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1990-93), he is now part of the faculty at Radiological Sciences, UCLA, and participates in teaching and mentoring Ph.D. students from the UCLA Biomedical Physics and BioEngineering Interdepartmental graduate programs. His major career goal is focused on developing novel multi-dimensional MR spectroscopic imaging techniques with respect to the entire body; 7T, 3T, and 1.5T MRI scanners; and the validation of these techniques with respect to human diseases (prostate and breast cancer, brain tumor, hepatic encephalopathy, HIV/Hepatitis C, and neuropsychiatric disorders). He has mentored 11 Ph.D. students, 3 M.S. students, and 15 post-doctoral fellows. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 350 conference abstracts and several book chapters. He is a member of four major international societies: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), American Association for Advancement of Sciences, NMR Society of India, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine.