During my PhD with Alain Goossens (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) I used protein-protein interaction mapping and reverse genetics to unravel jasmonate transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis. After a stay at UC Davis with Judy Callis working on protein ubiquitination and degradation, I returned to the Goossens lab to continue this research line, and set up CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in the lab for yeast, Arabidopsis and tomato. From 2017, I worked at VIB as a staff scientist/expert technologist and manager of the Crop Genome Engineering Facility. The research my group focussed on on improving methods for CRISPR delivery and plant regeneration and this within maize. In September 2024, I started as a Professor Plant Biotechnology at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University. Current projects include studying and engineering the interaction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and plants, and further improving plant transformation and genome editing using morphogenic regulators.