Christian Vanhove graduated as a Biomedical Engineer from Brussels University in 1990. He worked as a Medical Physicist at the Nuclear Medicine department of the Sint-Elisabeth hospital in Zottegem, where he did research and developments for the industry in a clinical environment. Research and developments were focused on all aspects of medical image processing, including image reconstruction, image fusion and image quantification. In 1996, he moved to the Nuclear Medicine department of the Brussels University Hospital. As a Medical Physicist Expert he continued his research in the field of medical image processing and obtained his doctoral degree in medical science in 2004. In 2005, he was one of the initiators of the small animal molecular imaging lab at the Brussels University. From 2005 until the beginning of 2011, Christian Vanhove worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of molecular imaging at the same university. Since February 2011, he joined the Medical Image and Signal Processing (MEDISIP) research group of the Faculty of Engineering at the Ghent University, where he is lecturer and director of a preclinical imaging lab.