The Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues to be the most powerful experimental infrastructure to investigate the elementary particles and their interactions. Over the past years, the UGent experimental particle physics group led by Prof. Dobur has made leading contributions to the CMS experiment at CERN. Their research spans from precision measurements in top quark sector and searching for new physics in CMS experiment to development of particle detectors with applications in particle physics and outside. Recently, Prof. Dobur has joined a new experiment, SHIP, which is designed to search for light new particles as well as to measure the neutrino interactions. The experiment will start operation from 2030 onwards. UGent team will contribute to the design and construction of the detector and to the feasibility studies for physics potential of SHIP.