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Wins the Emerging Technologies Award at the DIAH 2026 conference for developments of lysins for animal health.

Lecture to a classroom of 9-year-old children.

Featured on Voorproevers (VRT Max).

Poster "Colocalization of glycolytic enzymes on a synthetic protein scaffold" at IUMS 2024 ("Microorganisms for sustainable solutions: environmental & clinical implementations").

Poster on lessons learned from predicting over 100 RBP structures of Klebsiella phages. Won one of three best poster awards.

English blog on how technology and biology are increasingly blending together.

Poster in "Biotechnology applications in health care" session.

Poster on "Identification of phage receptor-binding protein sequences with hidden Markov models and an extreme gradient boosting classifier".

Poster "Scaffolding for product yield maximization of fine chemicals in microbial cell factories".

Invited 2-hour technical workshop on protein embedding models, covering theory (protein language models) and practice (computing embeddings).

Selected as oral speaker. Conference held online due to COVID restrictions.

Guest post explaining 'Digital phagograms: predicting phage infectivity through a multilayer machine learning approach' in broad terminology.

Selected as finalist of ie-net prizes. Won the prize of the public with video about master thesis work, and third prize of the expert jury.

3-minute pitch presentation.

Elected winner of the EOS prize for best thesis in exact sciences (editorial jury ¾ + public vote ¼). Won a publication in EOS Wetenschap.

8-minute presentation at the first all-online Belgian popular science event.

Webinar organized by the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium and Open Health Systems Laboratory.

Took over the Instagram channel of FWO for a week to showcase research.

Invited guest blog at the weekly newsletter Capsid & Tail with ~1000 readers in the phage field.

Dutch and English press release upon publication of the VersaTile technique. Published in Het Laatste Nieuws and numerous (inter)national blogs.

3-minute pitch explaining PhD research to the general public.

Dissertation "A dual computational approach to map domain architecture in phage lytic proteins" nominated for the EOS prize for best thesis in the exact sciences.

Presented the microfluidics part of lysin engineering research at one of the largest microfluidics conferences.

Twitter account posting updates on the PhaLP database and recent papers on phage lytic proteins.

Developed an exploitation plan to use lysins in cosmetic products. Won first prize for best exploitation plan.

Short film explaining PhD topic on lysin engineering for a general audience. Published by Scriptie VZW and EOS.

Presented sustainable aspects of phage products. Won one of two oral presentation awards.

Bimonthly blog posts in Dutch communicating the broad scope of phage research.

Selected by Atlas of Science to transform the review "Synthetic biology of modular endolysins" into a lay-audience text.

Presented VersaTile platform and microfluidics for (endo)lysin engineering.

Selected as finalist in the ie-net poster contest. Won the prize of the public for master thesis work.

Poster on the VersaTile platform for (endo)lysin engineering. Won one of three best poster awards by young investigators.

Presented lysin engineering research. Won the Multidisciplinarity Award.

Joined the online platform where the general public can ask questions in biology and science, answered by scientific experts.

Delayed due to COVID-19.

Survey conducted as part of bachelor thesis "Bacteriofaag-geïnspireerde alternatieven voor antibiotica".