Frank Broekmans, MD, PhD, is a gynaecologist and has been a Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht since October 2010. He is head of the Department of Reproductive Medicine and chairman of the committee for Science management of the Female and Baby division. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the VU Medical Center Amsterdam in 1983, became consultant OBGYN in 1990, completed a Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine at the VU Medical Center Amsterdam in 1993, and received his PhD degree in 1995. His scientific career has been devoted to the field of female reproductive ageing. Special focus has been on the normal ovarian ageing pattern, assessment of actual and future fertility status, genetic backgrounds of the variation in the ovarian ageing process, and recently, the link between vascular and ovarian ageing. At present, he is supervising 6 PhD students and 15 PhD students in total. He was Associate Editor of for Human Reproduction between 2005 and 2009, and is the former chairman of the Dutch Flemish Society for Studies on Fertility. In addition, he is a reviewer for Gynaecological Obstetrical Investigation, Fertility Sterility, Human Reproduction , and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism . He is also the coordinator of the Board of the Special Interest Group Reproductive Endocrinology of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, he is chairman of the pillar Reproductive Medicine of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He has published over 227 peer-reviewed scientific papers, contributed 30 book chapters and presented over 107 invited lectures at international meetings.