Marion Smits MD, PhD

Dr. Marion Smits is full professor and neuroradiologist at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam (NL), and honorary consultant at University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London (UK). She combines research with clinical work, with a particular focus on neuro-oncology in the Brain Tumour Centre, Rotterdam (NL). She is Vice-President of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) and Chair of the Imaging Group and Brain Tumour Group Imaging Committee of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC).

Dr. Marion Smits Marion is principal investigator of Applied Physiological Neuroimaging. This research line is focused on the non-invasive, in vivo visualisation of the human brain’s function and (micro)structure under physiological and particularly pathological conditions. The clinical applicability and implementation of functional MR neuroimaging techniques and their findings are an important aspect of her research line. This means that she closely collaborates, both nationally and internationally, with a variety of clinicians such as neurologists, neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, rehabilitation physicians, (neuro)psychologists, and psychiatrists.