Reinhilde Jacobs DDS, MSc, PhD

Reinhilde Jacobs is a dentist, Doctor in Dental Sciences (Ph.D. University of Leuven), periodontologist (KU Leuven), and Master in Dental Radiology (University of London). She is a full professor at the University of Leuven and visiting professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Dalian Medical University in China. R. Jacobs is heading the omfs impath research group of the KU Leuven (omfsimpath. be), being responsible for research, education, and clinical activities in the field of dentomaxillofacial radiology.

Reinhilde Jacobs is Secretary General of the International Association of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology, past president of the European Academy of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology as well a DDS board member. She is associate editor of Clinical Oral Investigations, International Journal of Oral Implantology, and Oral Radiology, meanwhile being an editorial board member of Clinical Oral Implant Research, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, Imaging Science in Dentistry, Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology, Revista Odonto Ciencia, Archives of Oral Research. She has received the D Collen Research Travel Award (1994), the IADR Young Investigators Award (1998), and the Belgian Joachim Award in Odontostomatology (1999).

In 2013, she was awarded a Dr. Honoris Causa at the “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca. She is involved in many multidisciplinary and inter-university research collaborations, with a specific focus on oral implant physiology and imaging research. She has been actively participating in 5 European projects (ref. Pisa, Minosquare, Osteodent, SedentexCT, Dimitra). She is (co-)author of 5 books and more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals besides multiple invited lectures and publications in other journals or books.