Frank Lobbezoo (1964) graduated cum laude as a dentist in 1988 from the University of Utrecht (UU), The Netherlands. In 1992, he obtained his PhD degree from the UU, after which he worked for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. As of September 1996, he works at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), The Netherlands, where he was appointed as a full professor in 2005. In 2014, he was appointed as Chair of the Department of Oral Health Sciences and Vice-Dean of ACTA. As of March 2023, he serves as Chair of the Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction. Frank Lobbezoo is specialized in TMD/Orofacial Pain, Past President of the Dutch Dental Society (NTG), Past President of the European Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders (EACD), and Past President of the International RDC/TMD Consortium, a Network of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR). He served as Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide in South-Australia, Australia (2006) and at the College of Dentistry of the New York University in New York, USA (2014-2015). In 2016, Frank Lobbezoo received an Honorary Professorship at the School & Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University in Jinan, Shandong, China. In 2019, he was appointed as Honorary Skou Professor of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function at the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and in 2026, he was appointed as Chair of the Medicine Section. As of September 2024, he serves as a Guest Professor at the Department of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.