Ritse Mann is a breast and interventional radiologist, working at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, as well as the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. He leads clinical radiological breast research at both hospitals. He is currently chair of the scientific committee of the European Society of breast imaging (EUSOBI), and section editor Women’s Imaging for the European Journal of Radiology. He is course director of the annual Nijmegen Advanced Breast Imaging Course, as well as the Cairo based course DETECT, has been member of the program planning committee for breast for ECR from 2012-2015 and is currently member of the scientific program planning committee for breast of the RSNA. He leads and participates in many clinical trials on the clinical value of new and existing imaging modalities for detection and classification of breast lesions, with a particular focus on breast MRI.