Koen Van de Vijver is a surgical pathologist with a keen interest in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the female genital tract and the breast. Most of his activities involve diagnostic work, teaching, and clinico-pathological research. His research is mainly focused on molecular analysis and the tumor micro-environment interactions in endocervical, endometrial and ovarian neoplastic diseases.  In 2011–2012, he completed a fellowship with Prof. Dr. Esther Oliva in Gynaecological Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). After working as a consultant histopathologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, he became a Professor of Gynaecological Pathology at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2018.