researcher overview
View all University of Twente researchers working within the Women's Health cluster here.
Dr. Lejla Alic
Focus: medical imaging, computer vision, medical devices, and laparoscopy.
Lucie Barbier
Non-invasive mechanical biomarkers to identify oocyte with high developmental potential, associated technologies for measurement in a clinical setting
Dr. Anique Bellos-Grob
Focus: interaction between the pelvic floor and a pessary and/or the effects of surgery on the pelvic floor, by means of imaging (MRI and Ultrasound).
ir. Lian Beenhakker
Focus: support breast cancer patients who still experience cancer-related fatigue (CRF) after diagnosis and treatment by developing a self-learning platform collecting holistic patient information.
MSc. Ana Boamfa
Focus: Lactation, breast during breastfeeding, understanding the relationship between breast physiology and milk transfer.
Dr. Christina Bode
Focus: chronic illnesses, vitality and fatigue, facilitated with technological innovative measuring and monitoring of patient-reported outcomes and by self-management interventions.
Dr.ir. Nienke Bosschaart
Focus: innovative diagnostic techniques for mother and child care, lactation and breastfeeding.
Dr. Faiza Bukhsh
Focus: Ontology, Breast Cancer Care.
MSc Rianne Bulthuis
Focus: photoacoustic imaging of breast cancer.
Dr. Francisco Conceição
Focus: personalized medicine approaches based on sex-specific features of bone diseases, such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, that disproportionately affect women.
Dr. Tessa Dekkers
Focus: eHealth interventions that aim to improve mental health and lifestyle through generative participatory design (PD).
Prof. Dr. Dirk Donker
Focus: complex cardiovascular and respiratory care.
Dr. Stans Drossaert
Focus: Shared Decision Making and online Decision Aids, online support groups, eHealth Literacy, Patient-portals, self-compassion and Psychological support for informal caregivers.
Prof. Dr. David Fernandez Rivas
Focus: process intensification through microfluidics.
Prof.dr. Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei
Focus: molecular breast imaging in breast cancer care, image guided personalized and sustainable breast cancer care.
Dr. Asli Günay
Focus: Design, gender-sensitive design, user experience, staged-based design methods and tools, stages of womanhood.
Dr.ir. Juliet Haarman
Focus: development of a wearable with which a newborn’s drinking behavior can be monitored in the home setting.
MSc Danique Hofstee
Focus: Imagining the future of women's health through understanding and design of data in digital health technologies.
Dr. Liza Hoveling
Focus: diagnostic delays in cancer among women, focusing on understanding the unique behaviors exhibited by female patients during the diagnostic process.
Dr. Naomi Jacobs
Focus: ethical concerns regarding Femtech apps for women’s reproductive health, vulnerable groups, Femtech, intersection between design, development and ethics.
Prof. Dr. Chris de Korte
Focus: imaging techniques, phantoms and ultrasonics, elasticity Imaging techniques, ultrasonography.
MSc. Nick Kampkuiper
Focus: treatment of severe pelvic instability, also known as sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction, by minimally invasive surgery by stabilizing the joint with implants.
Dr. Armağan Karahanoğlu
Focus: holistic experience-driven health-tech design approach that embraces the sensitive experiences of women.
Prof. Dr. Marcel Karperien
Focus: Osteoarthritis.
Prof. Dr. Armagan Kocer
Focus: Ion Channels, Liposomes, Lysophosphatidylcholines, Membrane Proteins, Membranes, Endometriosis.
Prof. Dr. Séverine Le Gac
Focus: Microfluidics / organ-on-a-chip for reproductive medicine (human fertility), breast cancer.
Dr. Marissa van Maaren
Focus: treatment and prognosis of breast cancer patients with the ultimate aim to contribute to better personalised treatment, improved outcomes and high quality of life.
Prof.dr. Srirang Manohar
Focus: photoacoustic imaging of breast cancer, from technology development to early clinical assessment.
Dr. Claudia Manzini
Focus: interplay between pelvic floor (muscle) recovery after labor and the effect of breastfeeding.
Dr. Frieda van den Noort
Focus: pelvic organ prolapse, understanding the interaction between the pelvic floor and a pessary and/or the effects of surgery on the pelvic floor.
Prof. Dr. Slart Riemer
Focus: Nuclear Medicine, Cardiovascular Radiology, Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging.
Dr. Marijke Schotanus-Dijkstra
Focus: mental health prevention with a specific focus on how to make more people flourishing.
Dr. Ionnis Sechopoulos
Focus: improve how radiologists read breast cancer screening mammograms together with computers by developing and using new artificial intelligence methods and advancing our knowledge on human visual perception of medical images.
Prof.dr. Sabine Siesling
Focus: effectiveness of persoNalized care After treatment for non-metastasized Breast cancer based On risk of Recurrence, personal needs and risk on (late) health effects.
Dr. Françoise Siepel
Focus: medical technology, image guided robotic interventions.
Dr. Jaimy Simmering
Focus: Aneurysm, Boidae, Computed Tomography Angiography, Electrocardiography, Extremities, Iliac Artery, Stents, Transplants.
Dr. Frank Simonis
Focus: Individual Biological Variation, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Prostatic Neoplasms.
Dr. Jodi Sturge
Focus: Digitalization of healthcare, intersectionality, Dementia, Care Environments, Social Justice.
Dr. Izad Tamadon
Focus: implantable devices for screeing breast cancer and restoring urologic problems.
Dr. Francesca Toso
Focus: relation between technologies and the human body and mind. Medical design, visual communication, design thinking. People living with dementia.
Kim Wijlens, MSc.
Focus: optimizing the health of breast cancer patients or survivors by holistic patient monitoring in daily life to provide personalized treatment recommendations.
Dr. Jeroen Veltman
Focus: Breast Neoplasms, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Annemieke Witteveen PhD
Focus: development of an intelligent self-learning system for patients with breast cancer that combines medical data with data about functioning in daily-life and that provides personalized intervention recommendations for cancer-related fatigue.
Dr. Ria Wolkorte
Focus: citizen science, applying citizen science in the process of developing and evaluating (new) technology, open science and FAIR data, arthritis and aging.
Dr.ir. Christina Zaga
Focus: developing methods, tools, and technology that support societal transitions towards futures of justice, care, and solidarity between communities, nature, and artificial agents. Social Justice methods for healthcare technology.