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.

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'.

Ineke Luijten is a Scientific Training Officer at the SciLifeLab Training Hub in Sweden. With over a decade of international experience as a biomedical researcher, she has a solid background in data analysis, project management, and academic teaching. At SciLifeLab, she develops and delivers cross-disciplinary Open Science and FAIR principles training. As an active member of the Open Science community, Ineke is passionate about creating infrastructure and standards that make scientific training more accessible, reusable, and impactful 

Nina Norgren is part of the SciLifeLab Training Hub in Sweden. She holds a PhD in Medicine with a focus on Genetics from Umeå University. With a strong interest in pedagogy and lifelong learning in the life sciences, Nina has several years of experience teaching programming and bioinformatics. She is particularly interested in how training materials can be made more effective and impactful for learners.