Dr. Robert Thomen recognized as Mizzou Distinguished Teacher

Robert Thomen, PhD, was recently recognized with the 2026 Maxine Christohper Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished Teaching. Thomen is an associate professor in the University of Missouri School of Medicine Department of Radiology and College of Engineering Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, respectively.

This award is made possible by an endowment established in 1982 by the late Byron T. and Maxine Christopher Shutz. It honors teachers from Mizzou’s Columbia campus who demonstrate extra efforts to involve undergraduates in active learning experience, and to help personalize the undergraduate experience of students.

Thomen and other award winners were recognized in early May during Faculty Excellence Week by Mizzou’s Provost Matthew Martens.

Thomen currently teaches three, three-credit hour courses in the Mizzou College of Engineering on the topics of medical imaging and MRI physics, and within the Mizzou School of Medicine Department of Radiology with focus on radiology physics for resident physicians.