Lab Alumni

Staff
Max Nobis (2022-2025), current: Lecturer at Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, School of Biomedical Sciences, Manchester University
Swati Gupta (2022-2024), current: Bio-informatician with Prof. Michiel Vermeulen at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Rita Faria (2023), current: PostDoc Researcher at CeMM, Vascular heterogeneity lab in Viena (Austria) with prof. Laura de Rooij
Beaunelle de Bruijn (2021-2023), current: Lab Manager at University Hospital Cologne, Department of Translational Genomics, Germany

Master Students KU Leuven
Seb Baudewijns (2025-2026)
Femke Philips (2025-2026)
Alicia Calderon Jimenez (2025-2026)
Zoë Mandemaeker (2025)
Elias De Wettinck (2025)
Arne Hermans (2024-2025)
Isa Decuypere (2024)
Jef Evenepoel (2024), current: PhD candidate at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Keren Griffioen (2024)
Christodoulos Koukouvetsis (2023)
Yannick de Mal (2021)
Gilles Van Den Broucke (2021)

Master Students other universities
Matilde Bastia (2026), University of Trento, Italy
Aanna Saha (2025), VUB, Belgium
Yuanhang Guan (2025), University of Padova, Italy
Chiara Coscarella (2025), University of Trento, Italy
Abbas Shafiei (2022-2023), University of Torino, Italy
Joshua Müller (2023), current: PhD candidate at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Charalampia Ioannou (2023), University of Thrace, Greece
Stephania Pedrotti (2022-2023), current: PhD candidate at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Kamyab Saberiseyedabad (2021-2022), current: PhD candidate at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Jakub Belhadj (2021-2022), current: Research Assistant at Medical University of Vienna (Austria) with A/Prof. Alexis Lomakin
Azaz Houssain (2021-2022), current: PhD candidate at Medical University of Vienna (Austria) with Prof. Gergely Szakacs
Marika Caruso (2021), current: PhD candidate at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Hande Nur Sahin (2021), current: PhD candidate at Koç University, Turkey
Hristina Hristova (2021), current: PhD candidate at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands) with Prof. Jacco van Rheenen
Shi Jie Huang (2020-2021), current: PhD candidate at the Department of Neurology, Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Bachelor Students
Elif Palina Yayin (2025), TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
Naomie Rouschop Dror (2023-2024), HAN University of Applied Science, Netherlands
Martha Azzopardi (2023), University of Malta, Malta
Martina Tomas Perez (2023), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Pauline Luo (2023), current: Lab Technician at VIB CCB with dr. Colinda Scheele
Camilla Carrara (2023), University of Trento, Italy
Isa Brücker (2022), HAN University of Applied Science, Netherlands
Asli Yildirim (2021), Bilkent University, Turkey
Rob Baars (2020-2021), HAN University of Applied Science, Netherlands, current: scientist at LONZA

Visiting Students
Prada De Maerteleire (2025), KU Leuven

Visiting PhD Students
Jenny Pessa-Eronen (2026), Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Elianne Angela Oosterom (2025), Utrecht University, Netherlands
Marika Attili (2024), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome, Italy
Françoise Derouane (2022), Saint Luc, UC Louvain, Belgium