Group alumni

Note: in bold are current academic group leaders.

Tania Ho-Plagaro, Spanish, PhD – Left 2024 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ CSIC Granada, Spain

Elia Lacchini, Italian, PhD – Left 2024 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Lausanne University, Switzerland

Jacopi Di Sora, Italian – Left 2023 – Current position: Unemployed, Belgium

Andres Ritter, Chilean, PhD – Left 2023 – Current position: Group leader and Junior Professor – CNRS Roscoff, France

Jhon Venegas-Molina, Ecuadorian, PhD – Left 2024 – Current position: Unemployed, Belgium

Ana Cristina Jaramillo Madrid, Colombian, PhD – Left 2023 – Current position: Unemployed, Germany

Rebecca De Clercq, Belgian – Left 2024 – Current position: Retired, Belgium

Evi Ceulemans, Belgian, PhD – Left 2022 – Current position: Regulatory Affairs Specialist @ Elements Advisory, Belgium

Lore Gryffroy, Belgian, PhD – Left 2022 – Current position: Project Engineer Co-Development @Pfizer, Belgium

Charlotte De Bruyn, Belgian, PhD – Left 2022 – Current position: Scientific Project Officer @ Sciensano, Belgium

Seowoo Kim, South-Korean, PhD – Left 2022 – Current position: Senior Researcher @ AbChemBio, South-Korea

Francisco Javier Molina-Hidalgo, Spanish, PhD – Left 2021 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ University of Córdoba, Spain

Clara Williams, US, PhD – Left 2020 – Current position: NSF postdoctoral researcher @ UC Berkeley, US

Gwen Swinnen, Belgian, PhD – Left 2020 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Lausanne University, Switzerland

Robin Vanden Bossche, Belgian – Left 2020 – Current position: Senior research associate @ Inari, Gent, Belgium

Jacob Pollier, Belgian, PhD – Left 2019 – Current position: R&D Projectmedewerker @ ECCA, Belgium

Avanish Rai, Indian, PhD – Left 2019 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovidv, Bulgaria

Yuechen Bai, Chinese, PhD – Left 2019 – Current position: Group Leader @ Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Maite Colinas, Swiss, PhD – Left 2019 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Bianca Ribeiro, Brazilian – Left 2019 – Current position: Unemployed, Brasil

Lei Wang, Chinese, PhD – Left 2019 – Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Bern University, Switzerland

Keylla Bicalho, Brazilian, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: NMR Specialist @ Bruker BioSpin, Belgium

Marie-Laure Erffelinck, Belgian, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: Scientist/ CMC Technology and Innovation @ Sanofi, Belgium

Patricia Fernández Calvo, Spanish, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: Group leader @ Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG)-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela and Madrid, Spain

Petra Van Damme, Belgian, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: ERC grant holder, Professor and Group Leader at Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Maria Perassolo, Argentinian, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: Group Leader at University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Karel Miettinen, Finnish, PhD – Left 2018 – Current position: Assistant Professor @ Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan Mertens, Belgian, PhD – Left 2017 – Current position: Science policy officer @ Research Foundation Flanders - FWO, Belgium

Louisi Souza de Oliveira, Brazilian, PhD – Left 2017 – Current position: Researcher, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Linlin Qi, Chinese, PhD – Left 2017 – Current position: Group leader and Professor @ Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China

Tessa Moses, Indian, PhD – Left 2017 – Current position: Metabolomics Specialist & Facility Manager @ Edinburgh University, Scotland

Sabrina Iñigo, Argentinian, PhD – Left 2016 – Current position: Senior Researcher-Team Lead BioAnalytics @ Biotalys NV, Gent, Belgium

Laurens Pauwels, Belgian, PhD – Left 2016 – Current position: Leader Crop Genome Engineering Facility, VIB-UGent, Gent, Belgium

Fabian Schweizer, Swiss, PhD – Left 2016 – Current position: Product Manager biological crop protection @ Fenaco, Lausanne, Switzerland

Alex Van Moerkercke, Belgian, PhD – Left 2016 – ✝ 2021

Jonas Goossens, Belgian, PhD – Left 2016 – Current position: Product Manager @ Bi-PA (Biological Products for Agriculture), Brussels, Belgium

Philipp Arendt, German, PhD – Left 2016 – Current position: Global Marketing Manager @ Euroimmun, Luebeck, Germany

Gabriela Calegario, Brazilian – Left 2015 – Current position: Researcher, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Janine Colling, South-African, PhD – Left 2015 – Current position: BIOGRIP water and soil node lab manager @ CAF, Stellenbosch University, South-Africa 

Astrid Nagels Durand, Belgian, PhD – Left 2015 – Current position: Patent Attorney @ BASF, Belgium

Michiel Matthijs, Belgian, PhD – Left 2014 – Current position: Senior scientist phenomics @ Inari, Belgium

Nathan De Geyter, Belgian, PhD – Left 2014 – Current position: Innovation Manager @ Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium

Michele Fabris, Italian, PhD – Left 2013 – Current position: Group leader and Professor @ University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Sophie Carbonelle, Belgian – Left 2013 – Current position: In vitro cultivation technician @ ILVO, Merelbeke, Belgium 

Azra Gholami, Iranian, PhD – Left 2013 – Current position: Senior researcher @ Byondis, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sandra Soetaert, Belgian, PhD – Left 2013 – Current position: Process owner Sample Management and Reagent/Material Management Chemical Lab @ Pfizer, Puurs, Belgium 

Amparo Cuéllar Pérez, Spanish, PhD – Left 2013 – Current position: Business development & Data science & analytics for biotech and pharma drug development @ BioLizard, Belgium

Gino Baart, Dutch, PhD – Left 2012 – Current position: Sales Manager - Northern Europe @ Fermentis - LeSaffre for beverages, The Netherlands

Lorena Almagro, Spanish, PhD – Left 2012 - Current position: Postdoctoral researcher @ Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Miriam Onrubia Ibañez, Spanish, PhD – Left 2011 – Current position: SFCC Back-end Developer @ Salesforce Commerce Cloud, OSF Digital, France

Lander Ingelbrecht, Belgian – Left 2011 – Current position: Technician @ BASF, Gent, Belgium 

Jan Geerinck, Belgian, PhD – Left 2010 – Current position: Team lead fungicidal protein characterization @ Biotalys NV, Gent, Belgium

Miguel Gonzalez Guzman, Spanish, PhD – Left 2009 – Current position: Professor @ Universitat Jaume I, Valencia, Spain

Sofie Tilleman, Belgian, PhD – Left 2009 – ✝ 2018

Antonio Leon-Reyes, Ecuadorian, PhD– Left 2008 – Current position: Group leader & Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Lies Maes, Belgian, PhD – Left 2009 – Current position: Teacher, Belgium 

Freya Lammertyn, Belgian – Left 2008 – Current position: De Paardencoach, Wachtebeke, Belgium 

Seppe Mertens, Belgian – Left 2007 – Current position: Sr Manager Project & Portfolio Mgmt @ Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium

Valerie De Sutter, Belgian, PhD – Left 2006 – Current position: Teacher, Belgium 

Chloë Van Oostende, French, PhD – Left 2004 – Current position: Microscope Facility Manager @ Ottawa University, Montréal, Canada