got a Master’s degree in Biotechnology at Ghent University, and subsequently worked as an academic researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Antwerp. After that he took up a doctoral project on neurodevelopment in the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at KU Leuven. After his PhD in Biomedical Sciences, he joined Nutriad to work as an R&D Engineer, and later as a Business Development Manager.