Tom Darius was trained in abdominal transplant surgery at the University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium from 2008 until 2010. Since 2010 he is working at the Surgical and Abdominal Transplantation Unit of the University Hospitals Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium. His current position is associated head of clinic, involved in kidney/pancreas transplantation, procurements, endocrine surgery and vascular assess surgery for hemodialysis. He obtained a PhD degree in 2020 entitled: “exploring different preservation strategies in a pig kidney DCD autotransplant model” and still involved in further research projects investigating oxygenated hypothermic machine perfusion in kidneys. Board member of the Belgian Transplantation Society since 2021 and member of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, The Transplantation Society, Vascular Access Society, … .