Reinhilde Jacobs is dentist, Doctor in Dental Sciences (PhD University of Leuven), periodontologist (KU Leuven) and Master in Dental Radiology (University of London).
She is full professor at the University of Leuven and visiting professor at Karolinksa Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and the Dalian Medical University in China. R. Jacobs is heading the omfs impath research group of the KU Leuven (omfsimpath.be) and the clinical center of dentomaxillofacial radiology (UZleuven).
She is Secretary General of the International Association of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology. She is section editor of 4 journals (Clinical Oral Investigations, International Journal of Oral Implantology, European Journal of Radiology and Oral Radiology).
She has received the D Collen Research Travel Award (1994), a postdoctoral fellowship of the European Commission (1994-95), the IADR Young Investigators Award (1998) and the Belgian Joachim Award in Odontostomatology (1999).
In 2013, she received a Dr Honoris Causa at the Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca.
She is involved in many multidisciplinary and interuniversity research collaborations, with a specific focus on imaging research, artificial intelligence and bioprinting.
She has been actively participating in 5 European projects and is (co-)author of 7 books and more than 550 publications in peer-reviewed journals besides multiple invited lectures and publications in other journals or books. Scopus (2022): h:72