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Questions and answers
What did you study for you bachelor’s and master’s degree?
I got my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Ghent. During these 5 years I got to explore a wide variety of elective subjects including biophysics, computational physics, machine learning and astrophysics. I always loved the great variety of the education and was happy to combine ML techniques and astronomy in my master thesis.
Why did you choose to do a PhD in this team?
This research is situated in a very wide research domain, combining different scientific fields, while also juggling the wildly different scales necessary to tackle the problems accurately. Such kind of endeavors can also be found in astrophysical settings and lay very close to my heart. Luckely some elective courses during my education introduced me to interesting biophysical questions and their massive impact on human health, so I was able to find this opportunity.
What would you say is your speciality within the research group?
Focusing on the inversion modelling of cardiac wave propagation both in the electrical and mechanical domain, I have to make sure to use as much of the physical and clinical information as possible in order to obtain a fast yet accurate model. So I would say finding the best parts of every field and facilitating them to be friends is key in my research.
What are your hobbies/after work activities?
I’m trying to learn some music theory and piano. In addition to annoying everyone around me with ears, I like to read, go to the gym, play video games or gather with as much people as possible and pull out some nice board games.
Do you have a fun fact about yourself that you want to share?
For about 23 years of my life I couldn’t stand realistic, bloody images, so fainting during the rabbit dissection was nothing new. However as I wanted to go into the cardiac scene, I was able to (almost) completely cure my blood phobia after a few weeks of exposing myself to bloody movies, how-to-draw-blood yt tutorials and emergency hospital shows.