Taco Blokhuis has been working as a trauma surgeon at the department of surgery at the Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands for the past five years. Before that, he worked in the University Medical Center Utrecht and the Radboud University Medical Center as a trauma surgeon. Before his surgery residency, he finished his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was appointed as an associate professor at Maastricht University in 2018.