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ESTRO-Varian Award

Timo Deist Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, MAASTRO clinic Maastricht, The Netherlands

Timowas born in Essen, Germany, in 1989. In 2008, he embarked on his bachelor’s studies in econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. After attaining his bachelor’s degree in 2012, he completed his master’s degree (cum laude) in operations research and management science at Tilburg University in 2013. For both his master’s and bachelor’s theses, he investigated heuristic algorithms for high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy treatment planning optimisation. He was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship and completed a second master’s degree in BioHealth computing at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, in 2014. For his master’s thesis, he studied the estimation ancestry coefficients using non-negative matrix factorisation and spatial information. Timo then returned to The Netherlands to pursue a PhD research on distributed learning and prediction modelling at Maastricht University/MAASTRO clinic under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Lambin and Prof. Andre Dekker. Next to his research for his PhD thesis, he worked part-time at the spin-off company ptTheragnostic B.V. with the goal to develop biomarkers for radiation sensitivity in humanmitochondrial DNA. Between October and December 2017, he

visited Dr. David Craft and the department of radiotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital/HarvardMedical School (United States) co-funded by an ESTRO travel grant. InMarch 2019, he started his postdoctoral research onmulti-objective optimisation algorithms for medical image registration at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Bosman.

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