Jan D'hooge

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics at the KU Leuven – University of Leuven,
Belgium in 1994 and 1999 respectively. His dissertation studied the interaction of ultrasonic waves and
biological tissues by means of computer simulation. Dr. D'hooge subsequently worked as a post-doctoral
researcher at the Medical Imaging Computing (MIC) laboratory of the department of electrical
engineering of the KU Leuven – University of Leuven. In this way, he got acquainted with general
problems in Medical Imaging such as image registration, segmentation, shape analysis, etc. and
challenging for other imaging modalities.
As from 2006, he was appointed an associate professorship in the department of cardiovascular sciences
of the medical faculty and in 2014 he became a full professor. He has been a part-time visiting professor
at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) and became a visiting
professor at the University College London in 2020. He is associated editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Ultrasonics, Ferro-Electrics and Frequency Control ; (co)-author on more than 300 peer-reviewed papers;
has contributed to 13 books and has co-edited two book. He was awarded a prestigious ERC consolidator
grant; gave the 2018 Kalmanson lecture of the American Society of Echocardiography and won the 2019
IEEE Ultrasonics Carl Hellmuth Hertz award. In 2019, he co-founded Pulsify Medical, a venture capital
based medical technology company. His current research interests include all aspects of functional
cardiac imaging, i.e. data acquisition, processing and interpretation. In August 2021, he was appointed
vice-rector research policy of KU Leuven