Profile

Eman (Emmy) Shaheen graduated with honors from the faculty of Computer Sciences and Information Technology (2003), Cairo University, Egypt where she worked as a teaching assistant from 2003 till 2007 with a major in Image Processing. Meanwhile, she obtained her Master’s Degree in Video Processing (2007) from Cairo University. In 2008, she joined the team of Medical Physics where she finished with distinction her pre-doctoral studies in 2009 followed by her doctoral degree in 2014 in Biomedical Sciences at the KU Leuven, Belgium to develop/simulate 3D models of breast lesions and tools to optimize the performance of breast tomosynthesis. In the same year, she started working in the department of Maxillo-facial surgery, University hospitals Leuven (Belgium) as clinical engineer with focus on 3D planning of orthognathic surgeries. Next to the patient related work, she is part of the research group OMFS-IMPATH (KU Leuven, Belgium) where she supervises masters and PhD students and supports different research projects related to 3D printing and 3D simulations.