Professor David Lurie graduated in Natural Philosophy (physics) at the University of Aberdeen in 1979. He then went to the University of London (St. Bartholomew's Medical College) where he completed an MSc in Radiation Physics and a PhD in Medical Physics. He joined the staff of the University of Aberdeen in 1983 as a research assistant, working with Jim Hutchison on low-field MRI. He was appointed Lecturer in 1985, and soon afterwards began working on methods for detecting free radicals using double magnetic resonance imaging. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1992, and to a Chair in Medical Physics in 2002. He retired in October 2021 and is now an Emeritus Professor. Prof. Lurie has been a Visiting Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a Visiting International Scholar at Ohio State University. In 2019 he was Visiting Faculty at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He is author of 86 peer-reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, 6 patents and over 280 conference abstracts. He has given 100 invited, keynote and plenary lectures at conferences and workshops around the world, as well as many invited seminars. His research was concerned with the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology and its applications, primarily in bio-medicine. Previous work by Lurie and his team included Proton-Electron Double-Resonance Imaging ("PEDRI") imaging of free radicals, and continuous-wave MRI of solid materials. His current research is focussed on the development and use of Fast Field-Cycling magnetic resonance imaging (FFC-MRI). From January 2016 to December 2019, Professor Lurie was the Coordinator of an EU-funded research project, "IDentIFY", with 9 teams in 6 countries working to improve FFC-MRI. He was also Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action scientific networking initiative, "European Network on NMR Relaxometry" (2016-2021). Prof. Lurie received the Academic Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine in 2017 and was awarded Senior Fellowship of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2021.