Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery at the Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp

Chairman of the Neurotraumatology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; President of International Neurotrauma Society; President of the section Neurotraumatology and Criticial Care of the European Association of  Neurosurgeons; Co-chairman of the European Brain Injury Consortium

Lifetime achievement award, International Brain Injury Association (2016)