Consultant, Full Professor and Clinical Head of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Section head of the section Head and Neck Oncology of the Department of Oncology of the faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven. Guest Professor in Head and Neck Oncology, University of Pisa, Italy. Adjunct Professor in Head and Neck Oncology and Salivary Gland Surgery, University of Southern Denmark at Odense, Denmark.

Area of expertise is head and neck oncology and surgery, with a specific focus on salivary gland and thyroid surgery, transoral laser microendoscopic and robotic surgery, endoscopic and external approaches to the anterior skull base.

Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Frontiers in Oncology, Frontiers in Surgery, B-ENT and Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española. President of the Royal Belgian Society for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and the Multidisciplinary Salivary Gland Society (MSGS); Vice Chair, International Advisory Section, American Head and Neck Society (AHNS); Executive Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS) and Member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Head and Neck Oncological Societies (IFHNOS).

Peer reviewed PubMed papers: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0035358&allItems=true&layout=IEEE-style&link=true