Amanda is a Microscopy Expert at the VIB Bioimaging Core-Gent, where since 2011, she has gained expertise in large sample imaging and quantification, from slide scanner to light sheet. She also has over 15 years of experience teaching science, both practical and theoretical, on the graduate and post graduate levels.

Evelien Van Hamme leads the Spatial Catalyst team in VIB. She obtained her PhD in 2009 at the university of Ghent studying viral entry of coronaviruses in monocytes. She has 12 years of experience in advanced bio imaging applications such as live cell imaging, functional imaging and CLEM workflows. In 2018 her interest in spatial technologies was raised when she started evaluating the Akoya CODEX technology. Since 2023 she focuses on spatial technology applications in life science research together with a team of data analysts.

As head of the VIB Flow Core,  Gert provides flow cytometry expertise to the users of the core facility by giving technical help to the scientists, maintaining the machines, implicating high quality SOPs as well as providing both experimental setup and data analysis consultations. The Flow Core develops novel automated analysis techniques for multi-parameter flow cytometry data to remove user bias in close collaboration with the on-site Bioinformatics team headed by Prof. Yvan Saeys.