Bart Nuttin

Bart Nuttin is emeritus full professor at KU Leuven Belgium. He was chief of clinic, neurosurgeon, at University Hospitals Leuven. He was born in 1959, is married and has 4 children. He obtained the MD degree at KU Leuven in 1984, and became specialist in neurosurgery in 1992. He defended his PhD thesis (promoter Prof. J. Gybels) in 1996. He trained also in Pretoria, South-Africa (1982), Exeter, England (1986), Köln, Germany (1994) and was visiting lecturer on the neurosurgical service at Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, US in 1994.He was chair of the Task Force on Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN), and has been member of the board of directors of WSSFN, vice-president for Europe WSSFN, treasurer of European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, president of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society, president of the Belgian Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and member of the Council of the "Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH" and member of several national and international societies. He was member of the committee of neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders in Belgium.He was research coordinator of the Group of Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven and before that, ombuds for PhD students. He was coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus project EMMAPA. He had several research contracts or Chairs with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, 3WIN, the European Commission, the Research Council of the University, the Flemish Government (SBO) and the ¿Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Vlaanderen (FWO)¿. He is and has been leading a series of master degree theses and PhD theses. He has published many times in international peer reviewed high impact journals.