Grants & Awards
VIB Strategic POC
2021Funding to develop an early proof of concept
VIB Scientists on Stage · Best Presentation
2019IWT Personal Fellowship
2009-2011Funding from Flemish government to support doctoral research
WELEK Robotics Competition · Fourth Place
2009Autonomous Sumo Robot
WELEK Robotics Competition · Fourth Place
2008Light Finder
IWT Personal Fellowship
2007-2009Funding from Flemish government to support doctoral research
Speculaas van de Maand
2003Award from the city council of Hasselt
International Biology Olympiad · Bronze Medal
2003Minsk, Belarus
Flemish Biology Olympiad · First Place
2003Training
Navigating conflict in a diverse team
2025Agnes Uhereczky · Leuven, Belgium
Relaas & SciMingo Workshop
2025Jurgen Stroobant & Arnaud Zonderman · Brussels, Belgium
Wapen jezelf tegen stress en burnout
2023Geert Vermaerke · Leuven (on-line), Belgium
Nextflow for reproducible and automated data analysis
2023Kobe Lavaerts and Kristofer Davie · Leuven, Belgium
Biobanking & GDPR
2023René Custers · Leuven, Belgium
VIB Machine Learning Workshop
2021Sven Degroeve · Leuven (on-line), Belgium
Boost your (digital) meeting skills
2021Gunnar Michielssen · Leuven (on-line), Belgium
Statistical Thinking
2021Highwoods - Joris De Wolf · Leuven (on-line), Belgium
Screencasting from A to Z
2019LIMEL - KU Leuven · Leuven, Belgium
Science Figured Out
2019The Floor is Yours (Toon Verlinden) · Leuven, Belgium
Scientists on Stage
2019The Floor is Yours (Hans Van de Water) · Leuven/Gent, Belgium
Enabling Innovation
2017Max Planck Innovation and Atrineo AG · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Proposal Writing
2016Brain Cusack & Babette Regierer · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Team Dynamics and Leadership
2016Betty Boden · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Fundamentals of image processing with Adobe Photoshop
2015Katja Toepfer · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Intercultural Communication
2014Alexia Petersen · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Team Dynamics
2013Betty Boden · Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Basic Assistant Training
2012Liesje Liagre · Gent, Belgium
Unix Systems for Bioinformatics
2011Lieven Sterck · Gent, Belgium
Creative Thinking
2011Karl Raats · Gent, Belgium
Project Management
2011Tom Jacobs · Gent, Belgium
Effective Oral Presentations
2011Jean-Luc Doumont · Gent, Belgium
Effective Writing for Life Sciences
2010Jane Fraser · Gent, Belgium
Ensembl Workshop
2007Bert Overduin · Gent, Belgium
Conferences
Nerdland Festival 2025 (Missen is Wenselijk) · Speaker
2025Wachtebeke, Belgium
Relaas (met thema) · Speaker
2025Gent, Belgium
NIH Club PCR Bioinformatics Interest Group · Invited Speaker
2023On-line, Belgium
Belgian SciComm Network Meeting · No active contribution
2020On-line, Belgium
Nanyang Technological University Singapore Guest Scientist · Guest Scientist
2018NTU, Singapore
EVOREPRO PlaNet 2.0 Workshop · Trainer
2017IGC Oeiras, Portugal
Plant Biology Europe EPSO/FESPB 2016 · Poster presentation
2016Prague, Czech Republic
EMBO workshop - New model systems for early land plant evolution · Poster presentation
2016GMI, Vienna, Austria
IMPRS Course - Linux and Scripting For Biologists · Teacher
2015MPI-MP, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
IMPRS - Comparative Genomics Workshop · Trainer
2014MPI-MP, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
PSB PLAZA 3.0 Workshop · Trainer
2014PSB/VIB Ghent, Belgium
Vibes 2014 - 4th International VIB PhD Symposium · No active contribution
2014Antwerpen, Belgium
AllBio Tutorial: New methods in genome annotation · Trainer
2014Berlin, Germany
AllBio Tutorial: Comparative genome annotation methods · Trainer
2014Potsdam, Germany
PSB/VIB Guest Scientist · Guest Scientist
2013PSB/VIB Ghent, Belgium
Black Forest Summer School · Trainer
2013Herzogenhorn, Germany
Plants & People · Poster presentation
2013MPI-MP,Potsdam-Golm, Germany
IMPRS - PLAZA Workshop · Trainer
2013MPI-MP, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Bioinformatics Affinity Seminar · Guest Speaker
2013MPI-MP, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
AllBio Course on Data Resources and Tools for Plant-Omics · Trainer
2013EBI-Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
FU Berlin - PLAZA Workshop · Trainer
2013FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Vibes 2012 - 3th International VIB PhD Symposium · Organizing committee
2012Gent, Belgium
VIB Seminar, PhD Student Day · Chair Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Session
2012Blankenberge, Belgium
Bioinformatics Affinity Seminar · Guest Speaker
2012MPI-MP, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Plant Genome Evolution · Poster presentation and software demonstration
2011Amsterdam, The Netherlands
GMPF Summer School 2011: Introduction to Bioinformatics · Invited speaker
2011IASMA, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
Comparative & Regulatory Genomics in Plants - Workshop · Organizing committee, lecturer
2011UGent, Gent, Belgium
Comparative & Regulatory Genomics in Plants - Conference · Organizing committee, oral presentation and poster presentation
2011PSB/VIB, Gent, Belgium
BioMaGNet's Annual Meeting · Poster presentation
2011ULB Campus Plaine, Brussels, Belgium
Vibes 2010 - 2nd International VIB PhD Symposium · No active contribution
2010Leuven, Belgium
9th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2010) · Poster presentation
2010Ghent, Belgium
First European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1) · Poster presentation
2010Ghent, Belgium
Brassicacea Map Alignment Project - 2nd BMAP meeting · Oral presentation
2010Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen, Germany
BioMaGNet's Annual Meeting · Oral presentation and poster presentation
2009VIB-Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
6th Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Comparative Genomics · Poster presentation
2008Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2007 · No active contribution
2007Leuven, Belgium