​Robert Hermans, MD, PhD, is a head and neck radiologist at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, and Professor of Radiology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is a member of several scientific societies, and served as president of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS).  He is also a past-president of the Royal Belgian Society of Radiology (RBSR). He was editor-in-chief of Insights into Imaging, the official journal of the European Society of Radiology, from 2010 until 2017. Dr. Hermans has authored about 180 articles and 40 book chapters, mainly on head and neck imaging, with a special focus on cancer imaging. He has also been the editor of four books on this topic. Dr. Hermans has been awarded honorary membership of the Radiological Society of South Africa (RSSA) and the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), and an honorary fellowship of the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).