CHARLES E. METZ earned his B.A. in physics from Bowdoin College in 1964 and his Ph.D. in radiological physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969.  Joining the Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago as Instructor immediately thereafter, Dr. Metz was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1971, to Associate Professor in 1976 and to Professor in 1980.

His research interests include various applications of signal detection theory and systems analysis in medical imaging, with emphasis on image reconstruction from projections and the development of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methodology for quantitative evaluation of diagnostic performance.

Dr. Metz is the author or a co-author of more than 250 scientific publications, and ROC software developed by his group is now used by more than 10,000 investigators around the world.

In 1995 Dr. Metz received the first annual Kurt Rossmann Award for Excellence in Teaching by vote of students in The University of Chicago's Graduate Programs in Medical Physics (now Committee on Medical Physics) .  He was elected as a Fellow of The American Association of Physicists in Medicine in 2004, received the Paul C. Hodges Alumni Society's Excellence Award in 2004, and was awarded the 12th L.H. Gray Medal by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements in September 2005.

Dr. Metz's biography is included in a variety of published listings, including Marquis Who's Who in America and Marquis Who's Who in the World.