Sandra Nuyts is a radiation oncologist and a full professor at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University in Leuven, Belgium. After finishing Medical School in Leuven, she performed training in radiation oncology at KUL. She defended her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Leuven in the field of tumor-targeted gene therapy. She is working at the Department of Radiation Oncology in Leuven, where she is responsible for the treatment and follow-up of Head and Neck Cancer patients. She is appointed to the medical faculty of the University of Leuven to teach molecular oncology. She is leading a research group on translational research in the domain of head and neck cancer, focusing on prognostic and predictive markers, including the use of functional imaging.