Ruben Pauwels (MSc, PhD) is an associate professor at the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Denmark, and strategic research coordinator of the ‘Intelligent Systems’ research group. He has a background in biomedical sciences and medical physics, and a research focus comprising the optimization of medical imaging in dentistry and the use of machine learning in the clinical workflow.

Dr. Pauwels has published 87 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and 10 book chapters, with 8137 citations and an h-index of 38 (Google Scholar). He has editorial roles or board membership in Dent maxillofacial Radiology, British Journal of Radiology, Clinical Oral Implants Research, Journal of Dental Research, and Sensors.  

He is co-founder and chair of the ‘Dental Imaging’ special interest group (SIG) at EFOMP, as well as member of the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ SIG as well as the Science Committee at EFOMP. He is member and project lead of the ITU WHO WIPO Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence - Topic Group Dental, and member of the Aarhus University Centre for Digitalization, Big Data and Data Analytics (DIGIT).