Team Members
Abykhair Muhammad
Aby
Aby is currently studying a Master’s of Biophysics, Biochemistry and Biotechnology with a deep interest in structural biology and its application in health field. He also played a huge role leading our Social Media team.
Favorite dip: Andalouse 🌶️
Ability to Navigate New Cities (%)
Ben Konings
Ben
Ben is currently studying International Communication and Media at Thomas More with a focus on communication in the media, which is why he has contributed greatly to making a fun and interactive wiki site.
Favorite dip: Mayonnaise 🥚
Rapping Ability (%)
Brigitte Bais
Brigitte
Brigitte is a Master’s student in Biomedical Sciences, her interests lying in oncology and virology. Science communication is also something she’s passionate about, which is why she was our Outreach team captain.
Favorite dip: Mayonnaise 🥚
Pool Playing Ability (%)
Dania El Abyad
Dania
Dania is a Master’s student in Biology, specializing in molecular biology and physiology. She’s passionate about communicating results to the scientific community and the wider public, hence why she captained our Wiki team.
Favorite dip: Toum 🧄
Debugging Ability (%)
Jane Chen
Jane
Jane (Junfei) is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology with a focus on cell biology and microbiology. She loves to hang around in the lab and cook for experimental results.
Favorite dip: Mayonnaise 🥚
Piano Playing Ability (%)
JeongHo Choi
JeongHo
JeongHo is a Master’s student in Biology with a focus on anticancer agents via engineered bacteria. His passion about assemblies of genetic modules into microorganisms made him a valuable member in various subteams.
Favorite dip: Curry Ketchup 🍅
Ability to Imitate Frilled Lizard (%)
Julia Bandera
Julia
Julia is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics with a focus on structural bioinformatics. Her fascination in solving biological problems using computational methods took her to lead our Dry Lab team.
Favorite dip: Samourai 🌶️
Ability to Trip Over Own Feet (%)
Shekoufeh Mir Mohammad Sadeghi
Shekoufeh
Shekoufeh is a Master’s student in Biochemistry and Biotechnology with a specialty in cell biology and microbiology. She really enjoys addressing current environmental issues through the use of science.
Favorite dip: BBQ 🍖
Persian Carpet Weaving Ability (%)
Tom Konings
Tom
Tom has just graduated his Master’s degree in Drug Development. His interest in synthetic biology and the challenge of leading and managing a team made him the best person to lead our project from start to finish.
Favorite dip: Mayonnaise 🥚
Ability to Make Deutsche Bahn Memes (%)
Vlad Batagui
Vlad
Vlad is currently a Master's student in Biochemistry and Biotechnology with a deep interest in building and using tools for genomics and transcriptomics studies. His wide expertise led him to be our Wet Lab captain.
Favorite dip: Tzatziki 🥒
Coffee-making Ability (%)
Xiaodie Li
Xiaodie
Xiaodie is currently following a Master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering with expertise in predictive microbiology in beverages. Her desire to explore business applications of synthetic biology made her our Finance team captain.
Favorite dip: Mayonnaise 🥚
Ability to Recognize Different Footsteps (%)
Yinfu Liu
Yinfu
Yinfu is a Master’s student in Statistics and Data Science, with a specialty in bioinformatics. He has a tremendous enthusiasm to tackle biological problems using statistical tools and programming.
Favorite dip: Curry Ketchup 🍅
Coding and Modeling Ability (%)
Zofia Urbaniak
Zofia
Dry Lab Social Media Wet LabZofia is currently a Master’s student of Bioinformatics, with a strong interest in the field of neuroscience. Creativity is also one of her strong sides, hence her overlapping roles across our different subteams.
Favorite dip: Ketchup 🍅
Tree-climbing Ability (%)
Principal Investigators
Vitor Pinheiro
Patrick Van Dijck
Instructors
Kiyo Costa Higuchi
Paul Vandecruys
Rosa-Maria Määttälä
Sisi Li
Advisors
Joris Kenis
Ruben K.
Sarah Vorsselmans
Volunteers
