Elke obtained a Master of Science in Health Promotion from Ghent University (2016) and completed her PhD at the Department of Radiation Oncology (Ghent University, 2021) with a doctoral thesis titled: “Physical activity and psychosocial cancer (p)rehabilitation to improve health-related quality of life in bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy.” Following her PhD, she worked for one year as a researcher at King’s College London (UK, 2021) and completed a six-month research stay at Flinders University in Australia (2024). In addition, she worked as a guest professor at the University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery (UCVV) from December 2021 to October 2023, where she taught courses related to quality of care. As a postdoctoral researcher, her work primarily focuses on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and (p)rehabilitation in oncology patients. Within the field of PROs, her research spans the entire spectrum: from developing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), to applying PROMs in observational and interventional research, and investigating their implementation in routine clinical practice. A significant part of this work is conducted in collaboration with the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group.