Prof. Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw is a full professor in Psychosocial Oncology at AmsterdamUMC (Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery) and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology). She has significant experience in health related quality of life and psycho-oncology research. She is the principal investigator of NET-QUBIC, a multicentre cohort study on head and neck cancer in which a rich Data Warehouse and Biobank is established including data (clinical, personal, lifestyle, and physical, psychological and social functioning and health related quality of life) and samples (blood, saliva, oral rinse) of 738 HNC patients and 262 informal caregivers. Furthermore, she focusses on innovating (cost)effective supportive cancer care, including eHealth. She has translated several research projects into clinical practice, such as OncoQuest (a system to collect and process PRO data in clinical practice), Oncokompas (a self-management behavioral intervention technology to monitor quality of life and obtain personalized advice), Hoofdzaken (a self-management intervention targeting psychological distress) and VerderZonderStembanden (a self-care program targeting patients after laryngectomy). Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw currently supervises 10 PhD students and is (co-)author of more than 250 publications.