Ali Mobasheri

Ali is President of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) and is ranked as one of the top 10 leading experts in the world on osteoarthritis on expertscape.com. He is Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology in the Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oulu in Finland. Ali holds the position of Chief Researcher in the State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine in Vilnius, Lithuania and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and the Departments of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands. Since April 2020 Ali has held a visiting professorship at Harvard University. Ali was educated at Imperial College London, the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate from Wolfson College Oxford. He has served on the BMC and Springer Open journals Editors’ Advisory Group (EAG), a group of Editors across who provide feedback on editorial policies and project development. Ali is an editor for leading international journals in his field and is an advocate of Open Access and Open Science.