Dr. Kris Gevaert, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Dr. Gevaert obtained his PhD in Biotechnology in 2000 at Ghent University (Belgium). He was a post-doctoral fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) until 2006 and got appointed Professor in the rank of lecturer in Functional Proteomics at Ghent University in 2004. Since 2005 he heads the Functional Proteomics group of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research and also the VIB Proteomics Expertise Centre. In 2010 he got appointed Full Professor at Ghent University and currently is an acting director of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research. Together with Joël Vandekerckhove he has introduced the suite of COFRADIC proteomics technologies which his group applies to the deep analysis of protein modifications, including protein processing by proteases. His group published over 130 papers and several book chapters on the development and applications of proteomics techniques in several areas of biomedical and life sciences research.