Experience

ImmuneSpec

• Belgium
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO & co-founder

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  ImmuneSpec is a VITO/UA spin-off company that offers immunopeptidomics as a service (Mass Spectrometry based MHC associated peptide identification) as a service. We can pinpoint exactly which immune peptides are presented by MHC complexes and thereby thrive development of vaccines and immunotherapy or we can assess immunogenicity of biologicals. ImmuneSpec is a VITO/UA spin-off company that offers immunopeptidomics as a service (Mass Spectrometry based MHC associated peptide identification) as a service. We can pinpoint exactly which immune peptides are presented by MHC complexes and thereby thrive development of vaccines and immunotherapy or we can assess immunogenicity of biologicals.



University of Antwerp

• Belgium
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctoral researcher

  • Aug 2019 - Mar 2023



VITO

• Belgium
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 2020 - Feb 2023

  At the VITO-UA Centre for Proteomics I worked on the set-up of an immunopeptidomics platform. By this technique we can pinpoint exactly which antigen derived immune peptide will evoke an immune response. At the VITO-UA Centre for Proteomics I worked on the set-up of an immunopeptidomics platform. By this technique we can pinpoint exactly which antigen derived immune peptide will evoke an immune response.



Pfizer

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader QC Bio-analytical Laboratory

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

• Quality Assurance Release Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2019



VIB

• Belgium
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctoral researcher

  • May 2015 - Mar 2017



Institut Pasteur

• France
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Oct 2014 - May 2015

• PhD student

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2014

  I completed my PhD under direction of Professor Christine Petit. My PhD project focused on the proteins responsible for the auditory sensation in the auditory hair cells. During this PhD I specialized in Biochemistry, cell culture, immunohistochemistry and microscopy.