Committee of Recommendation

Prof.dr.ir. F.P.T. Baaijens

Prof.dr.ir. F.P.T. Baaijens is in 2015 appointed as the Rector Magnificus of the Eindhoven University of Technology by the Supervisory Board of the TU/e. Besides, he is also full professor in Soft Tissue Biomechanics & Tissue Engineering. He received his PhD degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1987 with prof. J.D. Janssen as his supervisor. In 1985 he joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven to work on Computational Mechanics. Since 1990 he has been part time professor in the Polymer Group of the division of Computational and Experimental Mechanics of the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the area of Computational Rheology. In july 1995 he was appointed full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In October 2002 he was appointed full professor in the Department of BioMedical Engineering (division of Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering). From 2003-2007 he was Dean of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and he is currently Scientific Director of the national research program on BioMedical Materials (BMM). His current research focusses on soft tissue biomechanics and tissue engineering.

Dr. C.C. van Donkelaar

Dr. C.C. van Donkelaar obtained his PhD from Maastricht University, as one of the first two research assistants to doctorate in the partnership with Maastricht from which BME was formed. Subsequently, in December 1998, he was appointed at the BME program, which was in formation at that moment. His current research focusses on damage and wear of cartilage and developing implants for cartilage replacement, especially in the knee. Furthermore, he is the program director of our bachelor and master programs since 2018. His favorite hobby is making music (especially bass guitar) and he loves to be outside in the nature.

 

 

Prof.dr.ir. B.M. ter Haar Romeny

Prof.dr.ir. B.M. ter Haar Romeny is full professor of Biomedical Image Analysis at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven Technical University. Before, he was associate professor at the Image Sciences Institute (ISI) of Utrecht University (1989-2001). He received a M.S. in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology in 1978, did military service (Royal Dutch Navy officer) and acquired his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1983. He then became the principal physicist of the Utrecht University Hospital Radiology Department and (1986-1989) clinical project leader of the Dutch PACS project. Research interests: His interests are medical image analysis, its foundations and clinical applications. In order to understand image structure and analysis, a close look is taken to the human visual system. His interests are in particular the mathematical modelling of front-end vision, linear and nonlinear scale-space theory, medical computer vision applications, picture archiving and communication systems, differential geometry and visual perception. He authored several papers and book chapters on these issues, edited a book on non-linear diffusion theory in Computer Vision and is involved in (resp. initiated) a number of international collaborations on these subjects.

Prof.dr.ir.  J.C.M. van Hest

Prof.dr.ir. J.C.M. van Hest obtained his PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1996 in macro-organic chemistry with prof E.W. Meijer. He worked as a postdoc with prof D.A. Tirrell on protein engineering. In 1997 he joined the chemical company DSM in the Netherlands. In 2000 he was appointed full professor in Bio-organic chemistry at Radboud University Nijmegen. As of September 2016 he holds the chair of Bio-organic Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology.  Since May 2017 he is the scientific director of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). The group’s focus is to develop well-defined compartments for nanomedicine and artificial cell research. Using a combination of techniques from polymer science to protein engineering, well-defined carriers and scaffolds are developed for application in e.g.  cancer treatment, immunology and ophthalmology.

Van Hest was elected member of the “Jonge Akademie”, (The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 2005. He has won a TOP grant (2007) and a VICI grant (2010), the highest personal career grant obtainable through open competition in the Netherlands.  In 2012 he was one of the main applicants of the 10-year gravitation program on functional molecular systems (26.9 M€, with the universities of Eindhoven, Groningen and Nijmegen).  In 2016 he was awarded an ERC Advanced grant.  Van Hest is associate editor of Bioconjugate Chemistry. He is furthermore an advisory board member of Macromolecular Bioscience, Biomacromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Chemical Science and ACS Central Science. He has been elected member of the Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, and was awarded the Spinoza premium in 2020, the highest scientific distinction in  the Netherlands

57 PhD students have obtained their doctorate degree under his supervision, and he currently supervises 16 PhD students.  He has published around 400 papers. He is also cofounder of four start-up companies (Encapson, FutureChemistry, Noviosense and Noviotech).

On the following link you can find more information about the research group bio-organic chemistry at the TU/e: www.tue.nl/universiteit/faculteiten/scheikundige-technologie/onderzoek/onderzoeksgroepen/molecular-systems-and-materials-chemistry/bio-organic-chemistry

Prof.dr. K. Ito

Prof.dr. K. Ito is Vice Dean and full professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he leads the Orthopaedic Biomechanics group. This group combines numerical/experimental and engineering/biological methods to elucidate degenerative processes in bone, cartilage, disc and tendons/ligaments, as well as regenerative strategies thereof. He also is a professor in the Dept. of Orthopaedics at the University Medical Center Utrecht where he works on the mechanobiology of musculoskeletal regenerative medicine. Within the public-private-partnership Regenerative Medicine Crossing Borders, he is the leader of the Osteoarthritis moonshot. He is also the CSO at NC Biomatrix BV.

He received his doctorate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He was a fellow at the Inselspital, Bern and AO Research Institute, Davos where he stayed eventually becoming Vice Director. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is on the editorial board of Biomech Model Mechanobiol and is a deputy-editor of the Global Spine Journal. He and his group have been awarded the Spine Young Investigator Award 2004, the ESB Perren Award 2010, GSJ Best Paper Award 2014, as well as other conference awards. He recently was awarded an ERC-AdG to study the etiology of scoliosis. He has served in various capacities on the boards of the European Society of Biomechanics, AO Foundation, World Council of Biomechanics, and ISSLS.

Dr.ir. R.G.P. Lopata

Dr.ir. R.G.P. Lopata (1980) is an Associate Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he heads the Photoacoustics and Ultrasound Laboratory Eindhoven (PU LS/e) of the dept of Biomedical Engineering. In his group, imaging and modeling go hand in hand to develop medical technology that supports clinicians in their daily clinical decision making. Novel ultrasound image acquisition and reconstruction techniques are developed as well as functional imaging & image analysis methods that enable the non-invasive assessment of tissue function and structure. Moreover, novel photoacoustic imaging systems, including photoacoustic spectroscopy and microscopy, are developed that allow molecular imaging, i.e., assess tissue morphology and damage. All these data are input for patient-specific, biomechanical modeling (= digital twinning) of diseased organs, with a focus on cardiovascular disease, musculo-skeletal applications, and soft tissues. The group is known for its strong link to both the clinic and industry.

Lopata has graduated over 55 MSc students and 6 PhD students, and is currently supervising 17 PhD students, three post-docs and 12 MSc students. Over the years he was awarded several personal grants (VENI, VIDI, ERC starting grant), H2020 projects, and scientific/YIA awards. He is a board member of the Dutch Society of Medical Ultrasound, The Ethical Review Board of TU/e, the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, a senior member of the IEEE, and reviewer for numerous international journals and funding bodies.

Prof.dr. E.W. Meijer 

Prof.dr. E.W. Meijer is Distinguished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and co-director of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems. After receiving his PhD degree at the University of Groningen with Hans Wynberg, he worked for 10 years in industry (Philips and DSM). In 1991 he was appointed in Eindhoven, while in the meantime he has part-time positions in Nijmegen, MPI-Mainz, and Santa Barbara, CA. Bert Meijer is a member of many editorial advisory boards, including Advanced Materials and is associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Bert Meijer has received several awards, including the Spinoza Award in 2001, the ACS Award for Polymer Chemistry in 2006, the AkzoNobel Science Award 2010, the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science Japan in 2011, the Cope Scholar Award of the ACS in 2012, the Prelog Medal in 2014, the Nagoya Gold Medal in 2017 and the Chirality Medal in 2018. In 2020 he is knighted by the king to be Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He is a member of several academies and societies, including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, where he was appointed to Academy Professor in 2014.

Prof.dr. J.P.W. Pluim

Prof.dr. J.P.W. Pluim’s research entails medical image analysis in a broad sense, with a particular focus on image registration, computational pathology and image analysis for oncology. Both the theoretical side of method development and the applied side of working on medical problems appeal. Accordingly, she combines her professorship in Eindhoven with a part-time appointment at the UMC Utrecht.

Her scientific career started in the north of the country, with an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Groningen. Her interest in medical applications brought her to the UMC Utrecht for a Master’s research project. In 2001 she obtained her PhD at the Image Sciences Institute of the UMC Utrecht, on mutual information-based image registration. After her graduation, she enjoyed half a year at the Image Processing and Analysis Group, Yale University. She returned to Utrecht and headed the Image Registration group until her appointment at the TU/e in 2014.

She is or was an associate editor for five journals in the field, including IEEE TMI, IEEE TBME and Medical Image Analysis. She was programme chair of several international conferences (SPIE Medical Imaging, MICCAI) and served on the Board of Directors of the MICCAI Society.

Prof.dr. M.W.J. Prins

Prof.dr. M.W.J. Prins studied at Delft University of Technology (cum laude) and Université Paris-Sud, and received a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in 1995. Thereafter he worked at Philips Research where he developed technologies for point-of-care biosensing. Since 2014 prof. Prins is fulltime professor at TU/e in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physics, in the field of Molecular Biosensing (MBx), with affiliation to the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). The research focuses on novel principles for continuous biomolecular sensing with single-molecule resolution. He founded and organizes SensUs, the international student competition in the field of Sensors for Health (www.sensus.org). He co-founded and leads Helia Biomonitoring (www.heliabiomonitoring.com), a spin-off company focusing on continuous biomolecular monitoring.