Associate Professor, APH - Digital Health Associate Professor, CCA - Cancer Treatment and quality of life Associate Professor, CCA - Imaging and biomarkers Other Academic Staff, Radiation Oncology Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology

PI
Specialization

Radiation Oncology

Focus of research
  • Automatic treatment planning
  • Deep learning in radiation oncology
  • Flash ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy planning
  • kV fluoroscopy based Target tracking
  • Adaptive radiotherapy
  • Proton therapy optimization

Wilko Verbakel is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam UMC, and Principal Research Scientist at Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers Company. He graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology with a Master degrees in Technical Physics (1994) and in Design of Physics Instrumentation. After working some years as a nuclear physicist, he completed his PhD in 2003 on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy and became a staff medical physicist at the Amsterdam UMC in Amsterdam in 2004. Since 2023 he is Full-time principal research scientist at Varian Medical Systems.

Activities

  • Full-time Principal Research Scientist at Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers Company
  • Associate Professor at the Amsterdam UMC
  • Chairman of the Dutch NGO ICFON for agricultural and rural village development in Nepal since 2011 and ICFON board member, supervising yearly several development projects, since 2001