Stefaan Vandenberghe
Invited speaker “PET is Wonderful” 2025

Stefaan Vandenbergheobtained his MSc in Physics in 1996 and an additional degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1997 from KU Leuven. After working in the nuclear medicine department of the University Hospital Ghent (1997-1999) he started a Ph.D. in the MEDISIP group of the University of Ghent. He received a Ph.D. (Engineering) from this university in 2002, which was awarded with Scientific Prize of Barco. During his FWO postdoctoral research he worked on rotating slat systems (with solid state detectors) Monte Carlo simulations and natural pixel reconstruction in Ghent University and the University of Massachusetts. In 2004 he joined Philips Research USA (Briarcliff) to become a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Site Program. He has been appointed as full time research professor (BOF-ZAP) at Ghent University since October 2007 and leads the MEDISIP research group since 2008.