Cold atom experiments worldwide play a prominent role in the spectacular advances taking place in our exploration of the quantum world. In particular they gave rise to the field of Quantum Simulation, where specific model Hamiltonians and/or quantum many-body states are engineered in the lab. To kick-start this research line in Flanders, we have started a Bose-Einstein Condensate experiment. Such a condensate consists of at least a few ten thousand atoms that are cooled to a temperature of a micro-Kelvin or less. In this regime the physics is essentially that of an interacting quantum field theory. Our set-up has a state-of-the-art opto-magnetic system, providing us with a fine control on the atom cloud. The goal is to design, perform and analyse several original experiments in the realm of non-equilibrium quantum field theory. In this process we aim for a maximal synergy between theoretical and experimental work.