Dr. Dirk Rades is an expert, consultant, and lecturer for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the areas of Radiotherapy of Head and Neck Cancer and Bone Metastases. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Hamburg in 1997. After his formal residency in Internal Medicine and Radiology, he started his residency training in Radiation Oncology at Hannover Medical University. After his board certification in Radiation Oncology, he became a registrar and later consultant at the Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf. He was appointed Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology in 2004 and Full Professor of Radiation Oncology in 2008 at the University of Hamburg. He then moved to the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein of Lübeck and was appointed Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology in 2010. He has been Chairman of the Palliative Radiotherapy Group of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) since 2007. In 2008, Prof. Rades received the Annual Award of the German Cancer Society for Clinical Studies in Radiation Oncology. His major areas of research are palliative radiotherapy (metastatic disease), rare brain tumors, head-and-neck cancer, and radiochemotherapy. Of particular concern to him is the development of treatments tailored to the specific needs of the individual cancer patient.