People
Meet the people who make VIB the thriving institute it is
Science can't promise certainty: What volcanoes teach us about trust
For the past four years, I have worked in science communication at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience, exploring how scientific knowledge can become more accessible, meaningful, and responsive to the communities it affects. This year, my experiences as a Science Trust Project Ambassador and at a volcano science communication summer school in Iceland have prompted me to reflect more deeply on what it means to build trust in research. But what can volcanoes teach us about communicating neuroscience?
.png)
Supporting 30 years of neuroscience in Leuven: Meet Claudia Van Hove
For thirty years, Claudia Van Hove has been one of the quiet forces helping the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience run smoothly. Claudia and the logistics team work behind the scenes to ensure everything is in place: from sterilizing materials and preparing fly food to maintaining facilities and helping colleagues across the center. It is a job that spans countless tasks, and one that has kept her engaged ever since she first walked through the doors in February 1996.
.png)
30 years at VIB: A front-row seat to an extraordinary journey
When Melinda walked into VIB on 2 November 1995, there was little to suggest that she was about to become part of one of Europe's leading life sciences success stories. The organization was brand new, biotechnology was still unfamiliar to many, and VIB itself was little more than an ambitious vision with a handful of people determined to build something exceptional.
.jpg)
.jpg)
Algorithms and biological data - meet Dmitry Kobak
Following a PhD in bioengineering from Imperial College London and a postdoc at the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, Dmitry Kobak set up his own group at the Hertie AI Institute at Tübingen University. In 2026, he moved to the VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology. Time to ask him some questions.
On World Ocean Day, we celebrate the power of marine microbes
The ocean is one of Earth's biggest allies in buffering climate change. But some of its most important work happens out of sight, at the scale of molecules and microbes. At the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Sammy Pontrelli and his team study how marine microbes control the fate of carbon in the ocean, and what that might teach us about the future of our climate.
