The team

I have been lucky to work with a group of very bright young researchers on a variety of topics over the years. Below you can find those that I’m currently working with and those that have spread their wings and discovered even better opportunities.

The current team is composed of ...
- Axel Abels (PhD); FNRS and ELLIS postdoctoral researcher. Topic - Collective intelligence.
- Inas Bosch; FRIA PhD researcher in collaboration with Prof. Ann Nowé. Topic - Knowledge graph embeddings and disease prediction.
- Miriam Doh; PhD researcher on the TRAIL project ARIAC.
- Elias Fernandez Domingos (PhD); Senior FWO postdoctoral researcher in collaboration with Prof. Ann Nowé. Topic - Delegation to AI and Fairness
- Natalia García Colin (PhD); Research and Innovation Lead in MLG.
- Yannick Molinghen; Teaching assistant and PhD researcher. Topic - Cooperative games and learning.
- Madhura Pawar; ELLIS PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam in collaboration with Prof. Fernando P. Santos. Topic - Social media dynamics and cooperation.
- Marco Saponara; PhD researcher on FNRS project. Topic - Theory of mind and evolutionary game theory.
- Apurva Shah; PhD researcher on FLAIR in collaboration with Prof. Ann Nowé. Topic - Collective intelligence.
- Nassim Versbraegen (PhD); Postdoctoral researcher on ELIXIR Infra project funded by the FWO. Topic - Identifying genetic modifiers in rare diseases.
- Loris Giordano; FWO PhD researcher in collaboration with Prof. Vandemeulebroucke (ETRO - VUB). Topic - Aortic image analysis and risk prediction.

A subsample of the people in the lab for whom I found a picture

Former members

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do much” (H. Keller).

Postdoctoral researchers ;
- Elisa Cilia - Patent Examiner at European Patent Office.
- Matteo Gagliolo - Associate professor at ULB.
- Anmol Gautam - Scientist at Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon.
- Jelena Grujic - Data Engineer at Dataminded, Founder of DataBeers Brussels.
- The Anh Han - Professor at Teesside University.
- Fabien Kieken - Associate Director, in process analytics, GSK
- Luis A. Martinez Vaquero - Associate professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
- Sofia Papadimitriou - Bioinformatician at UZ Brussels.
- Francisco C. Santos - Full professor at the University of Lisbon and Vice-rector.
- Rémi Suchon - Research fellow at Anthropo-Lab, Université Catholique de Lille.
- Sven Van Segbroeck - Co-Founder & CTO at Cascador Health

Supporting staff ;
- Emma Verkinderen - Codon One

Fullbright researchers ;
- Ashley May Conard - Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Health Futures

Visiting researchers ;
- prof. Harmen de Weerd - Groningen University
- Dr. Carlos Gracia Lázaro - Universidad San Jorge.
- prof. Genki Ichinose - Shizuoka University
- Dr. Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski - CY Cergy Paris University
- prof. Francisco C. Santos - University of Lisbon.
- prof. Wakaba Tateishi - Hokkaido Musashi Women's University
- prof. Paolo Turrini - Warwick University

PhD students;
- Axel Abels (04/2024) with Ann Nowé - postdoc in MLG
- Simon Boutry (12/2024) with Miikka Vikkula - postdoc in Fellay lab, EPFL
- Ann Defaweux (04/2006) with Bernard Manderick -Brussels financial administration
- Sarah Deurinckx (12/2019) with Marc Abramowicz and Isabelle Pirson. - HUB Brussel Neurologie.
- Elias Fernadez Domingos (12/2020) with Juan Burguillo - postdoc in AI lab VUB and MLG
- Andrea Gazzo (06/2018) with Sonia Van Dooren -Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Barbara Gravel (09/2024) with Ann Nowé - travelling the world and back for work.
- Radu Huculeci (09/2013) with Nico van Nuland - European Society of Cardiology.
- Nathaniel Mon Père (12/2020) with Sophie de Buyl - postdoc in the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London.
- Eladio Montero Porras (09/2024) - postdoc in MLG
- Charlotte Nachtegael (06/2024) - Lab manager in HUB brussels.
- Gabriele Orlando (05/2019) with Wim Vranken - Junior Professor of machine learning for medical sciences in University of Marseille.
- Sofia Papadimitriou (09/2020) with Ann Nowé - Bioinformatician at UZ Brussels.
- Hannah Pinson (06/2023) with Vincent Ginis - Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology.
- Ana Pop Stefanija (11/2024) with Jo Pierson and Rob Heyman - postdoc at SMIT-IMEC VUB.
- Daniele Raimondi (05/2017) with Wim Vranken - Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier.
- Alexandre Renaux (10/2023) with Ann Nowé - Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in Excelra
- Lucia Rubio Fernandez (03/2015) with Nico van Nuland- Project Adviser at European Research Executive Agency (REA).
- Inês Terrucha (8/2024) with Pieter Simoens - postdoc in Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security.
- Sven Van Sebroeck (04/2010) with Ann Nowé - Co-Founder & CTO at Cascador Health.
- Sylvie Vande Velde (04/2024) with Oberdan Leo.
- Nassim Versbraegen (6/2024) - postdoc in MLG
- Giannis Zisis (6/2016) with Georg Kirchsteiger - Product Owner / Product Manager at Logicea.