Professor Oudkerk is professor of Radiology at the University of Groningen, Chief Scientific Officer of the Institute for Diagnostic Accuracy- iDNA (formerly of the Center of Medical Imaging NORTH EAST NETHERLANDS , NWO research Center of Exellence) and principal investigator of the 4-in-the-Lungrun Horizon 2020 study, the NELSON lung cancer detection study and the ROBINSCA cardiovascular screening study.

Founder and past president of the European Society of Cardiac Radiology and former Chairman of Radiology departments of DDHK Erasmus MC Rotterdam and University Medical Center Groningen. 

Prof. Oudkerk has a broad insight into new imaging modalities, AI and decision algorithms and strategies. He is ranked as one the most influential researchers in Radiology in Europe (2019). For his research work he received prestigious grants such as EU Horizon 2020, ERC advanced grant, Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands (KNAW), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), NWO, KWF, NKB grants etc. Honorary memberships ESCR (2011), DCVSR (2016), Chinese Society of Radiology (2022), etc, Awards: Pro Bono Curantium ( Polish Academy of Sciences), Pavlov medal (Russian Academy of Sciences), US Prevent Cancer Foundation Jim Mulshine Award ( 2023) Prof Oudkerk published more than 625 peer reviewed articles, is cited over 30,000 times with an H-index >80 (Scopus),1035 articles, 119.705 citations and H-index > 100 (Google Scholar) Key publications in Nature, NEJM, Lancet, Thorax, Circulation, JACC, Eur Heart, Radiology, Lancet Oncology, European Radiology etc.