Alexander Botzki at the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium has with his group the mission of providing technology training in domains of VIB Technologies, Bioinformatics & AI, Software Development, and Research Data Management. Between 2014 and 2022, he was head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core. From September 2009 to July 2014, he was responsible for the roll-out of E-Notebook (electronic lab notebook) to VIB's researchers within 75 research groups.

Before joining VIB, Alexander worked on various computational biology projects for Algonomics (bought by Lonza, 2008-2009) and DevGen (now Syngenta, from 2006-2008). During Alexander's PostDoc at Sanofi Aventis in Strasbourg, he executed various virtual screening campaigns on the compound selection of the merged enterprise. He received his doctoral degree with the group of Prof. Dr. Armin Buschauer (University of Regensburg, Germany) on 'Structure-based design of hyaluronidase inhibitors'.

Rafael Andrade Buono is a data steward at VIB and ELIXIR Belgium, working on the development of a (meta)data management platform and on the collection and dissemination of research data management best practices.

Professor of Big Data Science.
Specialties: algorithms, data structures, web development, data visualization, computational biology, bioinformatics, computational metaproteomics

Bruna Piereck is a bioinformatics trainer at VIB and ELIXIR-BE training coordinator deputy. She obtained a Master and PhD degree in Molecular Genetics, with a focus on Bioinformatics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2019. During her PhD, she had the chance to collaborate with the university of Luxembourg and the McGill university in Quebec Canada for a short time. Ever since she has been involved with teaching and research and Since March 2022, she joined VIB with the mission of teaching and assist other trainers in a variety of topics.

Nicolas Vannieuwkerke is a bioinformatician at CMGG (UZ Ghent) who mainly focuses on developing and maintaining Nextflow pipelines for the diagnostic NGS analyses. He is a very active member of the Nextflow community as a Nextflow ambassador and is part of the nf-core core team. Nf-core is the largest Nextflow community that creates and maintains a number of best-practice pipelines and developer resources.