Research Team
We are always looking for talented and enthusiastic masters, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers.
Please contact Prof. Rocha (email) for inquiries.
Principal Investigator
Post-doctoral researchers
Hongbo Yuan
PhD students
Bart Thevelein
Pierre Cybulski
promotor
Charlotte Cresens
promotor
Quinten Coucke
co-promotor
Marisa Vanheusden
co-promotor
Johannes Vandaele
co-promotor
Indra van Zundert
co-promotor
Guillermo Solis
assessor
Aline Acke
co-promotor
Laurens D’Huys
co-promotor
Boris Louis
co-promotor
Danai Laskaratou
co-promotor
Monica Ricci
co-promotor
Master students
Laurens Kimps
Stephanie Geerts
Nele Philippens
Elly Van der Heyden
Intership students
Alumni
Kaizheng Liu (Max), Post-doctoral researcher Jan-Nov 2020
After a short research stay, Max join us to continue his work on the effect of non-linear mechanics on cell behaviour
Maria Bravo, intership student Feb-Aug 2020
Maria joined our group as an Erasmus+ exchange student to work on the functionalization of nanoparticles for drug delivery.
Elfriede Heerwegh
Elfriede finished her master thesis on 'The role of cancer associated fibroblasts in tumor invasion' in June 2019 (promotor).
Dr. Herlinde Dekeersmaecker
Herlinde finished her PhD on 'Superresolution fluorescence microscopy based techniques for the study of signal transduction' in February 2017 (co-promotor).