Maarten Paulides is Director of the Center for Care and Cure Technology Eindhoven (C3Te) of the Electrical Engineering department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In addition, he is Associate Professor both in the Electromagnetics group of TU/e and at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam. A main theme in Paulides’ career has been the development and validation of applications for hyperthermia to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatment on head and neck tumors. Hyperthermia has the ability to increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments, or to reduce side effects by allowing the same effectiveness at a reduced radiation or chemotherapy dose. This is very important in head and neck tumors, since they form in an anatomically very fragile and complex area of the body. In his early career, Paulides focused on developing hyperthermia equipment, but over the years his focus has shifted to developing simulation- and MRI-guided interventions and assessment of the clinical benefit of head and neck hyperthermia. His work resulted in novel hyperthermia applicators, patient-specific simulation technology and pioneering data for improving electromagnetic exposure guidelines. Paulides specializes in electromagnetic simulations, antenna design, hyperthermia technology, magnetic resonance imaging and MR-guided intervention. Validation has always been a focus point of his, leading to expertise in clinical studies and treatment assessment. In his role as Director of C3Te, Paulides facilitates and stimulates cross-disciplinary research in the area of medical applications. Isabelle Lagroye, PharmD and PhD in Life Science, graduated from the Bordeaux University, France, in 1997.After a post-doctoral position at the Radiation Oncology Center in Dr Roti-Roti’s laboratory (Saint-Louis, MO, USA), she has done research work at the Bioelectronics group of the IMS laboratory, Bordeaux University since 1999. She is a professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France. Her research deals with the toxicological effects of non-invasive electromagnetic fields, investigating genotoxicity, apoptosis, protein expression, and stress markers in rodents and cell cultures. She is author of fifty-four peer-reviewed papers, twenty-nine invited conferences and about sixty conferences. She was an expert for ICNIRP (2003 ICNIRP ELF blue book), member of the ICNIRP subcommittee on biology (2008-2012), and of task group “gap in knowledge in the ELF frequency range”. She also contributed to WHO Environmental Health Criteria Task Groups (2004, 2005) and the 2010 WHO RF research agenda. I. Lagroye is currently Past-president of the European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA). She has been a reviewer for major journals in the field of bioelectromagnetics since 1997 (Bioelectromagnetics, International Journal of Radiation Biology, Radiation Research, Physical Biology) and associate editor for the Bioelectromagnetics journal (2013-2015).
