Martine J. Jager is professor of Ophthalmology, with a focus on ocular melanoma. She is vice-chairman of the MD examination committee at the Leiden University Medical Center. She holds a guest professorship at the Peking University Health Science Center, China and Adjunct Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston. She is President of the International Society of Ocular Oncology, past-president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the European Academy of Ophthalmology. She is a member of The Cancer Genome Atlas project for eye melanoma and the American Joint Committee on Cancer.