Joris is group leader of the Redox Signaling lab within Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, teaching 'Analytical Biochemistry' and 'Research Communication Skills'. After several years in Biotech-industry as a Master of Sciences in Biochemistry, he became an expert in protein purification. He obtained his PhD from the John Moores University of Liverpool (UK, 2003) with structural and functional work on arsenate reductase from Staphylococcus aureus. He is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, most of which focus on protein conformational changes induced by thiol-based reaction mechanisms, and on the identification of redox-sensitive proteins.

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