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Professor in Biomaterials Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Leuven BIOMAT Research Cluster, Leuven - Belgium Bart Van Meerbeek obtained his DDS degree in 1988 and his PhD degree in 1993 at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He continued his research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 1995, he became Assistant Professor at the KU Leuven and since has taught Biomaterial Science. In 2005 he was promoted to Full Professor. His primary research interest involves studies related to the adhesion of restorative materials to tooth tissue. His research work has been published in more than 300 national and international peer-reviewed journals and he has been honoured with awards such as: the triennial Robert Stock award for Biomedical Sciences in 1996, the Albert Joachim Award in 1997, the Award in Biomedical Sciences of the Research Council of the KU Leuven in 1998, the IADR Young Research Award in 2000, the SmithKline Beecham award in 2001 and the Buonocore Memorial Lecturer in 2003. In 2007, he was elected as president of the Pan-European Federation of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR). Since 2009 he has served as secretary of the Continental European Division of IADR (CED-IADR) and from 2004 he has been co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adhesive Dentistry