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single	The RSG Belgium team	/organization/	false	wide	overlay_color overlay_filter #0d9ea5 0.5	Meet the people that keep RSG Belgium running.<br><br>***Announcement**: RSG Belgium is searching for additional candidates to represent their university in our name. Please check out [this newspost](/news/looking-back-and-looking-forward/#university-representatives) for more information.*	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/sofia.jpg Sofia Papadimitriou President Sofia Papadimitriou Sofia is a PhD student at the [Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics](https://www.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/chercheurs/9/CH15179.html) in Brussels, a research collaboration between Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on the development of clinical predictive tools for oligogenic diseases, specialising in neurodevelopmental disorders. She is also a classical guitar player and occasional writer (yes, not only papers).	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/nikolina.jpg Nikolina Sostaric Vice President: Nikolina Sostaric The current vice-president of RSG Belgium, Nikolina is an FWO PhD fellow in the [Computational Systems Biology lab](https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/CSB/) of Prof. Vera van Noort [@KU Leuven](https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00106894). Her research focuses on the function of post-translational modifications in protein interactions.	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/moris.jpg Pieter Moris Secretary / web team: Pieter Moris Pieter is a PhD student at the ADReM Data Lab [@UAntwerpen](https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/pieter-moris/) whose research focuses on host-pathogen interactions and machine learning.<br>Also web development apparently.	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/sebastiaan.jpg Sebastiaan Vanuytven KU Leuven: Sebastiaan Vanuytven Sebastiaan is the current representative for the [KU Leuven](https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00116918), where he is a PhD student in the lab of Reproductive Genomics. His research focusses on the role of cellular heterogeneity in breast cancer. He is also affiliated with the Cancer Genomics Lab at the Francis Crick Institute (UK).	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/stijn.png Stijn Wittouck UAntwerpen: Stijn Wittouck Stijn is a PhD student in the [lab of applied microbiology](https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/endemic/research/laboratories/lab-of-applied-micro/) at the UAntwerpen. There, he studies the evolution and niche adaptation of *Lactobacillus* bacteria using comparative genomic and phylogenetic approaches. In addition, he's doing a joint PhD with the KU Leuven, where he is affiliated with the [computational systems biology group](https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/CSB/). He is very passionate about learning as well as teaching new bioinformatics skills. In his spare time, he occasionally plays the drums.	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/joris.jpg Joris Van Houtven UHasselt: Joris Van Houtven Joris is the current representative for [UHasselt](https://www.uhasselt.be/fiche?email=joris.vanhoutven), where he's developing workflows and algorithms for MS-based proteomics as part of the CenStat bioinformatics team.	image_path alt title excerpt /assets/img/people/charlotte.jpg Charlotte Nachtegael ULB: Charlotte Nachtegael Charlotte is a PhD student at [Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels](https://ibsquare.be/drupal/members/charlotte-nachtegael) and teaching assistant in the [Informatics Department at ULB](https://www2.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/chercheurs/4/CH15494.html). Her research focuses on the study of oligogenic diseases through networks and graph theory. She enjoys geeking on a good game or book in her free time, or playing around with her ukelele.	nav organization	true

RSG Belgium Board

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University Representatives

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We are looking for additional representatives across all Belgian universities. If you're interested, please let us know!