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ESTRO-Varian Award

Frank Dankers MAASTRO clinic Maastricht, The Netherlands

Frank Dankers was born in Tilburg, The Netherlands in October 1985. He followed Gymnasium at Valuascollege in Venlo before enrolling in Applied Physics at the Technical University of Eindhoven. With a minor in chemistry he completed his bachelor’s program graduating on the topic ‘surface tension gradient driven droplet propulsion’ supervised by Prof. Anton Darhuber in 2010. During his master’s program he focused on fluid dynamics and medical physics. He completed an internship at the radiation oncology department of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (co-funded by the Dutch Cancer Society), which sparked his interest in radiation oncology. He graduated on the topic ‘effects of anticonvulsants on the electroencephalogram of neonates with stroke’ at Maxima Medical Center in Eindhoven under the supervision of Prof. Pieter Wijn in 2012. He went on to train as a medical physicist at the radiotherapy department at Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The netherlands, receiving his professional registration in 2016. He continued working as a medical physicist at Radboudumc while also embarking on a joint PhD research project withMAASTRO clinic, Maastricht, The Netherlands, under the supervision

of Prof. Andre Dekker and Prof. Johan Bussink. Frank Dankers has an academic background in prediction modeling and machine learning for treatment outcome prediction in lung cancer patients receiving (chemo-)radiotherapy. His current research focuses on deployment and adoption of a distributed learning infrastructure enablingmulti-institutional privacy-preserving data analysis. His doctorate research is set to conclude in the first semester of 2019, to be followed by a fulltime position as amedical physicist at Leiden UniversityMedical Center in The Netherlands, from June 2019 onwards.

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