Project manager of several research projects, of which my own research line focused on investigating the therapeutic potential of targeting nuclear receptors in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (funded by personal UGent BOF postdoctoral fellowship).On a day-to-day basis this entails grant applications, scientific writing and publishing, coordination of scientific experiments and data analysis, establishing and coordination of (inter)national collaborations with clinical, scientific and industry partners and presenting scientific work to both experts and non-scientific audience.

My PhD research, conducted at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (Lab of Prof. Dr. Karolien De Bosscher) and funded by a personal FWO grant, focused on the transcriptional crosstalk between several metabolic nuclear receptors (e.g. GR and PPAR) in inflammatory and metabolic tissues. During this period, I designed and performed scientific in vitro experiments, analysed and translated data/literature to scientific papers, collaborated with industry (e.g. protocol optimization), supervised scientific projects/dissertation and presented results on team/departmental meetings and (inter)national conferences.