Frederik Barkhof

Frederik Barkhof received his MD from VU University, Amsterdam (NL) in 1988 and defended his PhD thesis in 1992, for which he received the Philips Prize for Radiology (1992) and the Lucien Appel Prize for Neuroradiology (1994). Since 2001 he serves as a full Professor in Neuroradiology at the department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at Amsterdam Universities Medical Centers (location VUmc). In 2015 he was appointed as full Professor of Neuroradiology at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology and the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) at University College London (UCL) to translate novel imaging techniques. In 2018 he was awarded the John Dystel Prize by the Americ Academy of Neurology (AAN) and National MS Society for his unique contributions to MS research. In 2021, he was awarded a Gold Medal by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Prof. Barkhof was the chairman of the Dutch Society of Neuroradiology and the MAGNIMS study group for many years. He is leading the Queen Square MS Centre Trial Unit, involved in analysis of multicenter drug trials. He serves on the Editorial boards of Radiology, Multiple Sclerosis Journal, Neuroradiology and and is associate editor (neuroimaging) for Neurology. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology. His research interests focus on white matter disease, ageing & dementia and glioma. He (co)authored >1500 papers referenced in PubMed, has an H-factor of 201 (Google Scholar) and is listed among 3000 most influential scientists world-wide by Thompson-Reuters. He is the author of the books “Neuroimaging in Dementia”, “Clinical applications of functional brain MRI” and “Clinical Neuroradiology – the ESNR textbook” with more than 500,000 chapter downloads Cumulatively, he has received >30 million euro of grant money from various national and international funding agencies and performed contract research for all major pharmaceutical companies with cumulative contract value of > 20 million euro. More than 75 PhD students graduated under his supervision and 6 of them have subsequently attained a full professorship