[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/noseworthy_michael.jpg” caption=”Michael Noseworthy is an MRI physicist and assistant professor in the departments of biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering and medical physics.”]Every year, hundreds of new professors establish their teaching and research careers at McMaster. The following interview with Michael D. Noseworthy launches a new feature for the Daily News, called Faculty Profile, a spotlight on McMaster's newest professors.

Noseworthy is an MRI physicist and assistant professor in the departments of biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering and medical physics. He spoke recently to McMaster's Office of Public Relations about his new role.

Tell us about yourself: Following undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Guelph, where I began my work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), I became a postdoctoral fellow at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. My first academic position was in medical biophysics at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children. I moved to Hamilton in late 2003 to join the Brain-Body Institute at St. Joseph's Healthcare.

In addition to my current role at McMaster, I am an adjunct professor at The Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto. My hobbies include playing the guitar and ice hockey.

What is your research focus at McMaster? I am assessing tissue microstructure and metabolism using MRI and in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Currently I am studying non-invasive ways to image structure and metabolism of healthy and cancerous tissues in the human body.

Why did you want to work here? McMaster's imaging research centre, located in the Brain-Body Institute at St. Joseph's Healthcare has a 3Tesla MRI, PET/CT and EEG all under one roof. The 3T MRI is unique in that it has multinuclear capabilities to see, for example, natural phosphate compounds or carbon in metabolites within a living human body. All of this combined was hard to pass up when offered a move from the University of Toronto.