Meet our team
Jeroen Raes
Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, since 2020
Full Professor at KU Leuven, since 2013
Vice director, Interuniversitary Institute for Bioinformatics Brussels (IB)2 since 2013
VIB Group leader, since 2009
Scientist at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007-2009
Postdoc: EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005-2007
Postdoc: Dept of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium, 2003-05
PhD: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2003
Staff Scientist
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Muriel Derrien
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Staff Scientist
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Geert Huys
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Staff Scientist
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Ruben Vazquez Uribe
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Staff Scientist
Support team
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Jara Wagemans
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Thi Thuy Duyen Nguyen
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Ami De Weerdt
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Chloë Verspecht
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Elisa van der Zande
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Office manager
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Lindsey De Commer
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Clinical Trial Manager
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Iris Reniers
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Rui Meneses
Postdoc
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Lindsay Devolder
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Sebastian Proost
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Project Manager - Bioinformatics, AI & Data Science
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Arnau Vich i Vila
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Doris van Bergeijk
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Raul Yhossef Tito-Tadeo
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Research Manager - Global South Microbiomes
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Jorge Francisco Vázquez Castellanos
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Laleh Khodaparast
PhD Student
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Hubert Krukowski
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Tanine Daryoush
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Mira Stas
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Astrid Vermeulen
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Joshua Simcock
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Javier Centelles Lodeiro
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Camiel Corten
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Joséphine Deneft
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MD PhD with UCL Prof. Marc Van Den Eynde
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Elias Maris
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Joint PhD with UGent Prof. Sarah De Saeger
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Emma Lemmens
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Alejandro Castellanos Sanchez
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Qiao Du
Students and interns
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Disha Sureesh
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Msc Student
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Lieze Stulens
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Msc Student
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Camille Timmermans
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Msc Student
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Maddalena Hofmann
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Msc Student