ESTRO 36 Programme book and exhibition guide

Awardees’ biographies

GEC-ESTRO BEST JUNIOR PRESENTATION Sponsored by ELEKTA Brachytherapy

Stefanus Maree Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stef Maree is a PhD student at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He started in February 2016, after obtaining his masters in applied mathematics from the Technology University of Delft, The Netherlands. His PhD position is within the project titled ‘ICT-based Innovations in the battle against cancer – next-generation patient-tailored brachytherapy cancer treatment planning’ that is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Elekta. The project is a collaboration between the AMC, the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in The Netherlands (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)), and Elekta Brachytherapy. In this project, state-of-the art optimisation methods, to be specific, evolutionary algorithms that are developed at CWI, will be advanced and exploited to improve the decision-making process in brachytherapy treatment planning. Stef’s focus within the project is both on the development of novel algorithms as well as the application of these algorithms in machine learning to perform direct expert knowledge elicitation, to determine the best way of formulating the optimisation problem to be solved that results in a treatment plan that requires no or very little additional fine-tuning.

Stefanus Maree

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