Is Professor of Medicine at the University of Leuven and Consultant Intensivist at the University Hospitals Leuven, in Belgium. He is funded by the Flemish Government as Senior Clinical Investigator.
Current research projects include: data mining and predictive modeling in neuro-intensive care and acute kidney injury; clinical and laboratory studies on cerebrovascular autoregulation; ketamine and brain injury.
He is past-president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, past-chair of the Neuro-Intensive Care section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Section Editor of Intensive Care Medicine.