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.

Boris Depoortere is a bioinformatician who has been strengthening the Compute Team of Data Core since November 2023. After his BSc degree in Biochemistry at HOGENT, he went on to combine his interests in information technology and life sciences by pursuing an advanced bachelor's in bioinformatics at HOWEST. This included a fruitful internship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where he created and computed a custom genomic workflow on the institute's HPC (UPPMAX). 
  
Currently, Boris works on the VIB Data Core Compute Cluster to improve the overall user experience. He administers the Belgian Galaxy instance (usegalaxy.be), which is hosted on Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) resources. The users of the services he is part of can always count on his unconditional support and devotion to solve problems.