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COMPANY AWARDS
Awardees’ biographies
GEC-ESTRO BEST JUNIOR PRESENTATION
Sponsored by ELEKTA Brachytherapy
Stefanus Maree
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stef Maree is a PhD student at the Academic Medical Center (AMC)
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He started in February 2016, after
obtaining his masters in applied mathematics from the Technology
University of Delft, The Netherlands. His PhD position is within the
project titled ‘ICT-based Innovations in the battle against cancer –
next-generation patient-tailored brachytherapy cancer treatment
planning’ that is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research and Elekta. The project is a collaboration between the AMC,
the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
in The Netherlands (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)), and
Elekta Brachytherapy.
In this project, state-of-the art optimisation methods, to be specific,
evolutionary algorithms that are developed at CWI, will be advanced
and exploited to improve the decision-making process in brachytherapy
treatment planning. Stef’s focus within the project is both on the
development of novel algorithms as well as the application of these
algorithms in machine learning to perform direct expert knowledge
elicitation, to determine the best way of formulating the optimisation
problem to be solved that results in a treatment plan that requires no or
very little additional fine-tuning.
Stefanus Maree