With his team Peter Boesiger develops new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy procedures for the assessment of functions of the human brain and of the cardiovascular and the digestive system. In local and international scientific collaboration with clinical sites the new procedures are applied in medical research. Latest developments of the team are parallel imaging techniques for faster image acquisition, new techniques for accurate flow quantification in moving structures such as heart valves or coronaries, and new methods for cardiac spectroscopy as well as for spectroscopic imaging and editing of selected substances in the human brain. P.B. is a board member of ISMRM, a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals; he is a winner of the Georg Friedrich Götz Award of the University of Zurich, the Thermology Commendation Award of the American Academy of Thermology and of the Günther Laukien Award. 2010 he became Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.