Colloquium series​

Lecture: High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) thalamotomy for essential tremor – Dr.Ir. Jules Nelissen

Date: Monday, 31 August 2026

Time: 15:00 hrs - 16.00 hrs

Deadline registration: 24 August 2026

Who Should Attend:

This lecture is open to researchers, students, clinicians, and anyone with interest in MRI, MR guided therapy / interventional MRI, HIFU/FUS, movement disorders, essential tremor.

Biograph

Speaker: Dr. Ir. Jules Nelissen  

Jules Laurent Nelissen (Maastricht, 1985) studied Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven. He graduated in the Biomedical NMR group of prof. Klaas Nicolay, and prof. Gustav Strijkers on the topic of ultra-short echo time MR imaging of mouse myocardial fibrosis. During his MSc-track he was awarded with the dr. E. Dekker Dutch Heart Foundation grant to perform an internship at the Image Science Division of St. Thomas’ Hospital at King’s College London under the supervision of dr. Markus Henningsson and prof. René Botnar on fat suppressed coronary artery vessel wall MRI. 

In 2012, he started a PhD in the Center for Imaging Research & Education (CIRE) lab of the Eindhoven University of Technology & Philips Research at the High Tech Campus (HTC, Eindhoven) on the topic of advanced MR imaging and elastography techniques for diagnosis and understanding of pressure ulcer related deep tissue injury (Promotor: prof. Klaas Nicolay & prof. Gustav Strijkers). For the development of the MR elastography hardware concepts, MR elastography sequences, and inversion methods he visited the lab of prof. Ralph Sinkus in the Image Science Division of St. Thomas’ Hospital at King’s College London.

Since 2018 he is appointed at the Radiology & Nuclear Medicine department of Amsterdam UMC as Medical Imaging & ICT expert within the Fysica, ICT & Medische Technologie group (prof. Aart Nederveen) with the mission to develop and apply innovative techniques for state-of-the-art acquisition, intervention, reconstruction, analysis and visualization of medical imaging data. Ongoing projects focus on clinical implementation of AI algorithms, High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, MR Elastography, and Interventional MRI (MRgHIFU, iCMR, cryoAblation).

Location

The lecture will take place in MTR Greepzaal HOOFDGEBOUW_4.E2.020 (MUMC+)

How to get to the Greepzaal:

• Take the elevator or stairs to level 4 (route 7 elevator H).

• When you exit the elevator, you'll see the Greepzaal sign on the wall on your right. (arrow pointing left.) 

• Walk a few meters in that direction, and halfway down the hallway, on your right, you'll find the  Greepzaal (sign on the ceiling).