Dr. Johannes Rijken is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He completed his Head and Neck surgery fellowship in 2018 at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2020, focusing on SDHB-linked paragangliomas. In 2018, he successfully graduated from the IFHNOS-GOLF exam.
His primary research interests lie in mucosal head and neck cancers, reconstruction techniques, sinonasal cancer, immune system function in head and neck cancer, and head and neck paragangliomas. He is actively involved in several studies as a principal investigator and provides supervision to multiple PhD students. He actively participates in the Dutch head and neck society and contributes his expertise to various Dutch guideline committees.