Recipient of the prestigious NWO VIDI personal grant for improving immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer.
Awarded the AMMODO Science Award for Groundbreaking Research in Life Sciences for foundation models in digital pathology.
Grants from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) as PI of high-risk projects PROACTING and COMMITMENT.
AI work package leader in EU projects BIGPICTURE and ExaMode.
Main organizer of MICCAI 2025 Lighthouse Challenge UNICORN, TIGER Challenge, COMPAY/COMPAYL workshops, and DALPHIN benchmark project.
Editorial board member of Medical Image Analysis and Communications Medicine (Nature Portfolio).
Developed software tools including HookNet and Neural Image Compression.
Led research projects such as ANTONI (multi-modal foundation models for virtual pathologist), GENERATOR (optimal treatment prediction for early lung cancer), and TIGER (automated quantification of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes).