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AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BENMIJNHEER
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ben Mijnheer got his PhD in 1971 at the University of Amsterdam
based on a study concerning neutron measurements. He was
appointed on a neutron therapy project in the Netherlands Cancer
Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam, and
after this project finished, he joined this institution as a clinical
physicist, where he remains until now involved in various research
projects and teaching activities.
His main research activities are in the field of dosimetry of ionising
radiation, the development of new irradiation techniques, and quality
assurance of radiotherapy. He was Professor in Medical Technology
in Oncology at Inholland University of Professional Training and the
first Physics Editor of Radiotherapy and Oncology. He is co-author of
about 250 articles and chapters in books, has received approximately
20 personal research grants, and was supervisor of about 25 PhD
theses.
He was involved in the organisation of the physics part of many
ESTRO scientific meetings and faculty member/course director of
several ESTRO teaching courses. He was also involved in numerous
other courses dealing with various aspects of radiotherapy for
medical physicists, radiation oncologists and radiation therapy
technologists, both at national and international level.
He received the ESTRO Breur Medal Award in Edinburgh in 1998 and
the ESTRO Emmanuel van der Schueren Award in 2013 in Geneva.
Ben Mijnheer