About S. (Sebastiaan) Breedveld, Assistant professor
Introduction
Dr.ir. Sebastiaan Breedveld obtained a master in Applied Mathematics at the Delft University of Technology. The research for his master thesis on radiation therapy treatment planning was done at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam.
This work continued in a PhD position, under the supervision of prof.dr. Ben Heijmen. It soon became apparent that automated treatment planning is possible, and leads to high quality treatment plans. After successful clinical introduction of the algorithm, Sebastiaan Breedveld continued working on his PhD, which was obtained with honours (cum laude) in 2013. In 2015, he received the Multi-Criteria and Decision-Making Doctoral Dissertation Award for the application of and contribution to this field.
Sebastiaan Breedveld currently continues his research on improving and automating treatment planning in the field of radiotherapy, with the motto: "Each patient should receive the best treatment technically possible: not the best we could achieve".
This work continued in a PhD position, under the supervision of prof.dr. Ben Heijmen. It soon became apparent that automated treatment planning is possible, and leads to high quality treatment plans. After successful clinical introduction of the algorithm, Sebastiaan Breedveld continued working on his PhD, which was obtained with honours (cum laude) in 2013. In 2015, he received the Multi-Criteria and Decision-Making Doctoral Dissertation Award for the application of and contribution to this field.
Sebastiaan Breedveld currently continues his research on improving and automating treatment planning in the field of radiotherapy, with the motto: "Each patient should receive the best treatment technically possible: not the best we could achieve".
Field(s) of expertise
Radiation therapy, applied mathematics, decision-making, multi-criteria, (large scale) optimization, operations research, high performance computing.
Education and career
Education:
2006-2012: Doctorate in Medical Physics (with honours), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands1998-2005: Master in Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Scholarships, grants, and awards
2016 : NWO Veni Grant on Large-scale improvement of radiation treatment of cancer patients
2015 : Winner Multiple Criteria and Decision Making (MCDM) Doctoral Dissertation Award 2015
2015 : Erasmus MC Efficiency Grant on Improving patient selection for Proton Therapy: Getting the best from limited resources (with M.S. Hoogeman)
2013 : PhD with honours
2010 : U.S. Patent 8,144,833 Planning for adaptive radiotherapy
2006 : Article Fast, multiple optimizations of quadratic dose objective functions in IMRT selected for inclusion in IOPselect
2015 : Winner Multiple Criteria and Decision Making (MCDM) Doctoral Dissertation Award 2015
2015 : Erasmus MC Efficiency Grant on Improving patient selection for Proton Therapy: Getting the best from limited resources (with M.S. Hoogeman)
2013 : PhD with honours
2010 : U.S. Patent 8,144,833 Planning for adaptive radiotherapy
2006 : Article Fast, multiple optimizations of quadratic dose objective functions in IMRT selected for inclusion in IOPselect
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Participating in Medical Physics research groups.
