Peter Dedecker

Dedecker received his PhD in Chemistry from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in the group of Johan Hofkens. He then spent 6 years as a postdoc in the Hofkens group and in the group of Jin Zhang, then at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, before returning to the KU Leuven as an assistant professor. Over his career he has worked in a range of fields, including spectroscopy, optics, biochemistry, and imaging. Since 2015 he has been the head of the Lab for Nanobiology at the KU Leuven, where his research focuses on the development of strategies, fluorophores, and instruments for the visualization of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in cellular processes.