Michael graduated in Molecular Biology in 2009 at the University of Namur. He then started his PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Xavier De Bolle, working on the link between the cell cycle and the infection process of the intracellular pathogen Brucella abortus. During his PhD thesis, he also worked at the Christine Jacobs-Wagner lab (Yale University). He got his PhD in 2013, then moved to the industry for 2 years (UCB Pharma SA) before going back, since October 2015, to academia in the lab of Prof. Jean-François Collet (financed by a WELBIO fellowship) as an assistant researcher focusing on industrial valorisation of fundamental research.

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