dr. ir. N.M. (Marianna) Sijtsema

Marianna Sijtsema is a senior medical physicist in the department of radiotherapy in the UMCG with a large clinical expertise in image guided and adaptive radiotherapy. 

In addition to her clinical work Marianna Sijtsema is senior researcher focusing on image biomarkers in target volumes and organs at risk to predict radiotherapy treatment outcome. Recently she received a European grant from the INTERREG program for the development of deep learning methods for medical image analysis in radiotherapy and radiology.

Furthermore, Marianna Sijtsema is workpackage leader in the ProTRAIT project, which is a large infrastructural project funded by the KWF. In the ProTRAIT project the national research infrastructure necessary for the clinical validation of proton therapy in the Netherlands will be developed and implemented.