Postdoctoral Research Associate, HFSP Long-Term Fellow at Imperial College London, funded by the Human Frontier Science Program

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Biography

I am a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellow at the BioPattern Lab, Korcsmaros Lab and the NIHR Imperial BRC Organoid Facility, investigating the fundamental question of how microbial spatial arrangement within the gut’s mucus layer affects intestinal homeostasis and host-microbe interactions.

I received a Masters degree in Biomedical Sciences from Hasselt University (Diepenbeek, Belgium) with a focus on Environmental Health Sciences. I then went on to do a PhD in Bioengineering at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), where I developed and optimized an in vitro model to model host microbe interactions in the small intestine. Before starting the HFSP fellowship in June 2025, I was a Research Associate in Organoid Culturing at the NIHR Imperial BRC Organoid Facility.