Frederik Barkhof MD, PhD

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 has served as a full Professor in Neuroradiology at the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at VUmc. In 2015 he was appointed as a full Professor of Neuroradiology at the Institutes of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology at UCL in London (UK) to translate novel imaging techniques. In 2018 he received the John Dystel Prize by the US National MS Society and the American Academy of Neurology for outstanding contributions to research in MS. In 2019, he became a senior fellow of the 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 the analysis of multicentre drug trials. He serves on the Editorial boards of Radiology, Brain, Multiple Sclerosis Journal, Neuroradiology, and Neurology. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology.

Prof Barkhof’s research interests focus on white matter disease, dementia, and glioma. He has authored the books Neuroimaging in Dementia, Clinical Applications of Functional Brain MRI, and Clinical Neuroradiology – the ESNR textbook.