Emmanouil Fokas is Professor of Clinical Radiation  Oncology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Deputy Clinical Chair at the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, University  Hospital Frankfurt. He holds an MD from the Philipps University Marburg,  Germany and a PhD (DPhil) in Clinical Oncology and Radiobiology from  the University of Oxford, UK. He has obtained several third-party  funding grants in the UK and Germany. He has given over 150 invited  seminars and lectures throughout the world and is a regular contributor  to international medical publications and meetings. His clinical focus is Gastrointestinal Oncology, especially ano-rectal cancer, and is PI and co-PI of several clinical trials. He has (co)authored  over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including first and last authorships in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Annals of Oncology and the Journal of National Cancer Institute.