Following the study medicine (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dick Schoot was trained as gynaecologist in the former Westeinde hospital the Hague (nowadays MCH) and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked for several years as a staff member at the Academic Hospital in Rotterdam. Here he specialized in fertility treatments and IVF (board certificate Fertility Specialist). During this period he was working on the department ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis. His defence of his PhD Thesis was on “Follicular dynamics and Follicle stimulating hormones”. Following this period he was appointed as gynaecologist in a large University affiliated teaching hospital in Eindhoven (Catharina Hospital). He gained clinical experience and mastered in foetal medicine (Kings College 2003). Endoscopic surgery in endometriosis / adenomyosis and uterine dysfunction were his main working domains for the last 20 years. He started research on uterine dynamics with TU/Eindhoven in 2012. He published over 200 pear reviewed scientific articles, abstracts, posters. His research group won 7 prizes on international congresses. In 2015 he was appointed as Professor at the University of Ghent, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as well as distinguished research associate at the technical university Eindhoven.  In 2022, he was appointed knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.