Affiliation: Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology

Dr. Van der Henst is a Group Leader at the VIB-VUB Centre for Structural Biology and an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) since 2021. He completed his doctoral studies at UNamur in 2012, in the field of Molecular and Cellular Microbiology with a focus on host pathogen interactions. He then went on to pursue his postdoctoral studies in 2012 at Université catholique de Louvain which focused on bacterial stress response. He completed his second postdoctoral fellowship at EPFL, Global Health Institute in 2017, which focused on host pathogen interactions. He was an invited researcher and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at UNamur (2018-2019), where his research focused on antimicrobial resistances and drug discovery. Since the year 2020, he is appointed as a Group Leader at VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology where his lab focuses on multidrug-resistant bacteria, with a clear emphasis on the Gram-negative bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii.