Professor Dr. F. Berrevoet obtained his medical degree at Ghent University after which he received his surgical training at the University Hospital in Ghent, University Hospital Saarland, Homburg, Germany and Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the Netherlands. He started as a fellow at the Department of General & HPB and Transplantation Surgery at the University Hospital Ghent in 2004 after which he became a consultant in this department in 2006. Since 2020 he is the Head of the Department for General and HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation and Procurement. He published over 200 scientific papers on both abdominal wall surgery, pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation and has presented on these topics more than 500 times at international meetings. He is the current Secretary of Science of the European Hernia Society, past President of the Belgian Section of Abdominal Wall Surgery and past President of the Belgian Section for HPB surgery, as well as Vice-chair of the Educational Committee of the European HPB Association. He is the current General Secretary of the Royal Belgian Society of Surgery. He acts as a reviewer for many scientific journals in his field and is Associate editor for the Journals Hernia, Acta Chirurgica Belgica and JAWS.