Staff members
Staff Members
Peter Dubruel, Prof.
Professor and Group leader
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Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Prof.
Professor and Group leader
Prof. Dr. Sandra Van Vlierberghe holds a guest professorship at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Photonics, VUB, Belgium) and a 100% professorship (BOF-ZAP) at Ghent University (Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials Group, Belgium). She has acquired expertise related to the synthesis, the modification and the processing of photo-responsive and/or photo-crosslinkable (bio)polymers including thermoplasts (e.g. polyesters) and hydrogels (e.g. proteins and polysaccharides) for a variety of biomedical applications (e.g. tissue engineering, drug delivery, sensors, photonics, etc.). She is experienced in the field of polymer processing using 3D printing (laser- versus extrusion-based additive manufacturing), electrospinning and two-photon polymerization (2PP). She received her PhD in Sciences in 2008 at Ghent University. She authored >165 Web of Science Core Collection cited papers, she has a h-index of 32 (WoS), is promoter of 17 PhD’s and she edited three books, authored 7 chapters in books of which 5 invited. She is treasurer of the Belgian Polymer Group (BPG), former spokesperson of the ‘Young Scientist Forum (YSF)’, TERMIS-EU council member and member of the independent ESB Awards Committee. She serves on the editorial board of several journals focussing on tissue engineering. In 2017, she received the Jean Leray award from the European Society for Biomaterials. She is (co-)inventor of numerous patents and patent applications, is co-founder of the spin-off ‘XpectINX’ focussing on bioinks for biofabrication purposes and is involved in the spin-off project Gelgraft Medical.
Lab Coordinator
Veerle graduated as ‘industrieel ingenieur chemie – algemene chemie’ in 1994 at KIHO (Ghent, Belgium). As Erasmus student she worked during her thesis on chemical recycling of PET to polyol at the Fachhochschule Aalen (Germany). After her thesis she stayed another 3 years in Germany to work for a PUR company where she got the chance to scale up the chemical recycling of PET to polyol and to use the recyclate in their PUR production. As at that time a Belgium diploma was not accepted/recognized in Germany, she combined work and study in order to obtain a German work permit. In 1996 she graduated as ‘Diplom Ingenieur Polymerchemie’ at the FH Aalen (Germany)
In 1997 she moved back to Belgium to work as chemical engineer in the International Development Centre of Recticel. After half a year she got an offer from the Gates Europe Company and started working there as Material Development Engineer. In 2000 Veerle decided to work as chemical engineer for the Philips company and stayed there until September 2007. Since then she has been working as lab manager for the UGent PBM group. Inspired by the PhD students she is besides being a lab manager also involved in scientific work and is currently working on nitric oxide releasing polymers as therapeutic delivery of exogenous NO.