Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and manage bioinformatics support for the Cell Therapy research area
• Data-driven target identification
• Business Development asset evaluation
• Assist in drug target discovery projects by analysing (single-cell) transcriptomics experiments

Achievements/milestones:

• Analysis workflow for data-driven (single and combo) target identification
• Identified several potential targets, with two successfully integrated into the company’s pipeline

Responsibilities include:

• Manage multiple research collaborations, with academic and industry partners
• Lead computational investigations into melanoma cell states (see paper)
• Implement NGS technologies (e.g. single-cell CRISPR pooled screens, 10X Chromium single-cell RNA-seq, 10X Chromium phased whole-genome DNA-seq)
• Supervise (co-promoter of) 2 PhD students
• Teach “Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Expression, Regulation and Networks” (2nd Master of Biomedical Sciences)

Achievements/milestones:

• 4-year scholarship of Stichting tegen Kanker (1 of 10 scholarships) (~€400K)
• 3-year scholarship of Kom op tegen Kanker (1 of 3 scholarships) (€225K)
• 3-year research grant of The Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust (US; $130K)
• 2 first-author and 10 co-author papers (4 as second-last author)
• Invited speaker at the 10X Chromium scRNA-seq workshop (2017; Ghent), at the Bioinformatics Interest Group meeting (2018; Leuven), at the Melanoma Workshop 2019 (Otranto) and at the CCB-VIB Cancer Seminars (2019)

Responsibilities include:

• Lead Work Package 1 of an EU Marie Curie IAPP cancer project in an SME spin off company
• Fine-tuning and validation of a prognostic assay, consisting of a panel of epigenetically-regulated protein biomarkers (see paper)
• Supervise 1 bachelor student

Achievements/milestones:

• Abstract Travel Award by the Society of Melanoma Research (SMR) ($1.5K)
• 1 first-author papers and 1 co-author paper
• Invited speaker at Society of Melanoma Research Conference (Boston)

Responsibilities include:

• Head 2 research collaborations
• Supervise (co-promoter of) 1 master student

Achievements/milestones:

• 2 first-author and 6 co-author papers
• Invited speaker at the International Melanoma Workshop 2013 (Dublin) and at the Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI)

Responsibilities include:

• Run 4 research collaborations
• Supervise 2 master students
• Tutor math, physics, chemistry and biology
• Teach “Morphological techniques - Research techniques” (3th Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences)

Achievements/milestones:

• Promising cancer research in Flanders by the Flemish League against Cancer (VLK) (€50K)
• Cycle for Life Award of the Leuven Cancer Institute, UZ Leuven (€20K)
• Outstanding Abstract Award at the Paris Melanoma Conference
• 6 first-author and 8 co-author papers
• Invited speaker at the European Congress of Pathology 2011 (Helsinki), at the Paris Melanoma Conference, at the EORTC melanoma group meetings (Milan) and at the Leuven Cancer Institute