Dr. Marta E. Capala is working as a Radiation Oncologist at the Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After obtaining her Master's degree in Medicine from Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland in 2007, she joined the Topmaster Medical and Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation program at the University of Groningen, where she graduated in 2009. In 2015 she received the Ph.D. title from the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen. Subsequently, she joined the Department of Radiotherapy at Erasmus MC, where she worked as a Resident in Radiation Oncology from 2015 to 2020; a clinical/research fellow from 2020 to 2022, and finally as a member of the clinical staff. Her research focuses on translating the findings of fundamental radiobiological research into improved clinical outcomes for cancer patients. One of her important research goals is to create prediction models of both tumor and normal tissue response to irradiation facilitating the development of tailored radiotherapy treatment for individual head and neck cancer patients.