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Born in 1961, became doctor of medicine in 1986 and specialized in Radiation Oncology in 1991 at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. In 1995 he received his PhD degree in Paris on the Radiation Sensitivity of human tumour cells. From 1993 to 1999 he was appointed, as Radiation Oncologist in the departement of the University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven (KUL). Since 2000, he has held the position as seated Professor in Radiation Oncology at the University of Maastricht, Head of the department for Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital of Maastricht, Medical Director of the MAASTRO CLINIC, Division leader of the Research institute GROW and more recently he has also been appointed as Professor of Functional Imaging in Radiation Oncology.
Over the past thirteen years, he has received many awards which includes the 1991 Fullbright-Haze Award for research in the US, the 1993 ESTRO Varian Award, the 1995 Young Scientist Award of the Radiation Research Society (RRS), the 1996 Fellowship of Flemish Funds for Scientific Research and two prizes once in 1996 and again in 2002 from the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine.
Complimenting these activities on both a European and International basis, he is a member of numerous scientific societies and a key contributor at various (inter)national scientific committees (e.g. ESTRO, CKTO, KWF, EU). Continuous involvement as a principal investigator in his specialized area has lead him to head more than 17 research grants and publish more than 115 peer reviewed papers with over 300 conferences contributions. Besides projects supported by cancer foundations and EU, he had/has many collaborations with pharma and imaging industry. He supervised 11 PhD projects, is author and co-author of > 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is (co)inventor at four patents.
His main professional interests are directed towards translational research in Radiation Biology with a specific focus on tumour hypoxia, functional imaging (CT-PET) and lung cancer. He also has a recent interest in Systems Biology applied to Radiation Biology. In addition, he has focused on using key strategic management processes within his field and has created and implemented a version of the Balanced Score Card model for training and research purposes.