From 1984 – 2016: trained (and worked as clinical (neuro)pathologist in the Radboud
University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
From 1991-1992: trained as neuro-oncological pathologist by Peter C. Burger in Duke
University Medical Center, Durham/NC, USA;
Since 2007 full professor in neuro-oncological pathology;
Since 2011 and 2016 affiliated with, respectively, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
and with the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht;
Led multiple (inter)national research projects, (co-)authored > 400 papers in
international peer-reviewed journals and was member of the editorial board for several journals;
Centrally involved in shaping the revised 4th edition of the WHO CNS tumor
classification (2016, including the introduction of ‘histomolecular definitions;
Expert-editor of the 5th (2021) edition of the WHO CNS tumor classification;
Chair of Steering Committee of the consortium to Improve Molecular and Practical
Approaches for CNS tumor Taxonomy (cIMPACT-NOW) and of the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting
(ICCR) CNS tumor dataset committee;
Advisor for the Adapting Diagnostic Approaches for Practical Taxonomy in
Resource-Restrained Regions consortium of the the Asian Oceanian Society of Neuropathology (AOSNP-ADAPTR);
Coördinating expert of the editorial board for the forthcoming 6th edition of the WHO
CNS tumor classification.
