Ton G. Van Leeuwen

Ton G. van Leeuwen received the Graduate degree in physics (with hons.) from the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree (with hons.) from the University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, based on his work on pulsed laser ablation of tissue with the Laboratory for Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht. After a Postdoc period and an ICIN Fellowship with CWRU, Cleveland, OH, USA, he became a Staff Member with the Laser Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1998. In 2001, he was appointed as a Professor in clinical application of biomedical optics with the University of Twente, at which he headed the Biomedical Optics group from 2003 to 2008. In 2008, he was appointed as a Professor in biomedical photonics and the Head of the new BME and Physics Department, Amsterdam UMC, followed by the appointed as a Full Professor in biomedical physics in 2009. He has coauthored more than 200 peer reviewed articles and supervised more than 30 Ph.D. students. His current research focuses on the physics of the interaction of light with tissue, and to use that knowledge for the development, introduction, and clinical evaluation of (newly developed) optical imaging techniques for gathering quantitative functional and molecular information of tissue. He is a Fellow for the AIMB and SPIE.