Thierry Voet

Thierry Voet graduated with a Master in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium), and holds an inter-university post-graduate in Human Genetics. Following his PhD in the Human Genome Laboratory at KU Leuven, he pioneered single-cell microarray analyses, and in 2010, he joined in the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (Cambridge, UK) to explore next-generation sequencing technologies for single-cell genomics, which led to an Associate Faculty membership. In 2014, he became Associate Professor at KU Leuven following a tenure track, and was appointed tenured Professor in 2017, and Full Professor in 2022. In 2021, he founded the interdisciplinary KU Leuven Institute for Single Cell Omics (LISCO) together with 33 colleagues, of which he is also director. His research focuses on (1) the development of methods for single-cell and spatial multi-omics, and (2) their application to study the biology of cellular heterogeneity in human development, aging and disease.