My research interests comprise many aspects of computer vision, (medical) image analysis and image guided interventions. In these fields I have (co-)authored over 260 papers in these fields, of which 170 in peer reviewed journals, and of which 5 received best paper awards.

In 2017 I was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. Previously, I had the honor and privilige to be member of the Dutch Young Academy of the Royal Academy of Sciences from 2005-2010, and member of its board in 2009-2010.

In 2015 I received the Simon Stevin Meester award, the largest prize for technological scientific research in the Netherlands.