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Honorary Member Award

Matthias Guckenberger Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Matthias Guckenberger was trained as Radiation Oncologist at the Department of Radiation Oncology (Prof. M. Flentje), University Hospital Würzburg, Germany. After a research fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research UK and the Royal Marsden Hospital London under Prof. M. Brada. He was promoted to Associate Professor (W2 Professor) in 2010 and became Vice-Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology, at the University Hospital Würzburg. In 2014, he was appointed as Chair of the Department of RadiationOncology, University Hospital Zurich and Full Professor at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He is currently Chair of the Imaging Department of the University Hospital Zurich and is Vice Dean for the Master of Medicine at the University of Zurich. His research is located at the interface of medical-physics and clinical research: development, implementation and clinical evaluation of advanced radiotherapy technologies. Areas of interest are from a physics perspective image-guided adaptive radiotherapy, radiomics & outcome modelling and stereotactic radiotherapy, and from a clinical

perspective: lung cancer, prostate cancer and oligometastatic disease. He has published in more than 230 PubMed listed manuscripts with an h-index of 42. Within ESTRO, he served for many years as teacher in the ESTRO school courses “Image guidance” and “Advanced technologies”, as course-director of the “Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy” course, member of the task group on quality management, member of the Green Journal Editorial board andmember of the ESTRO Board and Scientific Council. He enjoys his free time with his wife Christine and their three children, Jan, Lea and Mia, mostly doing sports activities.

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