CEBE - Spanish Scientists in Belgium

BENELink was quite an experience. Thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially our speakers, volunteers and sponsors💚 See you in the next edition! Axencia Galega de Innovación, Fundación Ramón Areces, imec, Ambassade d'Espagne en Belgique, CENL Científicos Españoles - Países Bajos

📢 Time is running out to apply for our PhD positions! Are you looking for a cutting-edge research opportunity in digital health? The deadline to apply for one of our doctoral candidate positions within the InSilicoHealth Doctoral Network is fast approaching! 🚨 Here are the upcoming deadlines for applications: 24th October: • Mechanisms and Prevention for the Ageing Brain – KTH Royal Institute of Technology • Participatory modelling the societal complexity of use of in silico models to design uptake strategies – KTH Royal Institute of Technology 25th October: • Integrating RRI into in silico technologies – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) 31st October: • Generation of a virtual twin for the human brain accounting for region- and age-dependent properties – FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg • Integrating data-driven (AI) and physics-based modelling approaches for improved understanding of functional brain age – KU Leuven 1st November: • Probabilistic failure risk assessment in ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms – KU Leuven • Developing a virtual twin of the spine based on clinical images including the intervertebral disc – Politecnico di Torino 3rd November: • Shear wave speed stiffness as biomarker of cardiac ageing: an in silico exploration of shear wave elastography – Ghent University 4th November: • Physics-based and experimental data-driven arterial disease modelling – Delft University of Technology 11th November: • Ageing-associated movement primitives defining healthy versus degenerative joint function: a hybrid modelling approach – KU Leuven 29th November: • Mechano-chemo models of the knee and intervertebral disc joints, to explore the emergence of age-related risk factors of degeneration – Universitat Pompeu Fabra Visit our website for more details and application info: https://lnkd.in/e-SRE_sS Good luck to all applicants! 🍀

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium) And last speaker for our biotech discussion panel: Maria Torres Toda, PhD. She is a Senior Environmental and Occupational Epidemiologist at the Health Protection Department in the Laboratoire National de Santé (LNS) in Luxembourg. She is responsible for implementing epidemiological surveys in the general and occupational population in the context of chemical exposure and its potential health effects. The main output of her work is creating scientific evidence for policy-making.

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium) Let’s keep meeting our speakers! It is the turn for Rosa Martín-Pérez, Associate Director R&D for Interventional Oncology at Johnson & Johnson. Rosa has over 15 years of experience on Cancer Biology and Tumor Immunology. Currently leading a Tumor Biology team supporting discovery programs for Interventional Oncology from pre-portfolio to early development. Interventional Oncology (INTO) is a Research & Development enterprise group that integrates the expertise of both Johnson & Johnson sectors, medtech and pharma,  aiming to develop intratumoral treatments. They use a multidisciplinary approach to help accelerate J&J’s bold vision to eliminate cancer by developing the portfolio and procedures to deliver drugs directly into tumors.

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium) Let’s keep meeting our speakers! Meet Ania Lukasiewicz, one of our speakers from the first panel “Biotechnology: current limitations and coming challenges”. She studied molecular plant biology at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD at the University of Gent. In her PhD research, she used CRISPR-Cas to knock out potential susceptibility genes in potato protoplasts to develop resistance to Phytophthora infestans. She also completed a 5-month BlueBook internship at the European Commission, working on the proposal for an adapted regulation using New Genomic Techniques in plants. Currently, she works as a researcher on New Genomic Techniques in the plant breeding group at Wageningen University and Research. CENL Científicos Españoles - Países Bajos

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium). Registrations still open! Let’s keep meeting our speakers! It is the turn for Alessia Tomo, moderator of our second round table about AI. Alessia is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law and the operational coordinator at DigiTax, Center of Excellence. She is also a member of the interfaculty institute Antwerp Tax Academy, of ACRAI – Antwerp Center for Responsible AI, and of the research group “Business and Law”. Before moving to Belgium, she obtained a joint PhD, cum laude, at the University of Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). Her main research field concerns AI and taxpayers’ data protection. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ermpr9FM CENL Científicos Españoles - Países Bajos

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El pasado jueves celebramos la VIII edición de nuestro #SpanishInfluencersInScience ! Este año nos centramos en la ciencia del cáncer y tuvimos a dos ponentes inmejorables! : Maria A. Blasco del CNIOStopCancer y a Sarah-Maria Fendt de VIB. Gracias a todos por venir al Instituto Cervantes Bruselas !! En sus ponencias nos deleitaron con dos maravillosas charlas sobre el papel de los telómeros en cáncer y la importancia del metabolismo en la metástasis! Gracias a Fundación Ramón Areces, a la Embajada de España en Bélgica y a Instituto Cervantes Bruselas por hacer posible este evento! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Thursday, we celebrated the 8th edition of our #SpanishInfluencersInScience! This year, we focused on cancer research and had two outstanding speakers: Maria Blasco from CNIOStopCancer and Sarah-Maria Fendt from VIB. Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Instituto Cervantes Brussels! In their presentations, they captivated us with two amazing talks on the role of telomeres in cancer and the importance of metabolism in metastasis! Special thanks to Fundación Ramón Areces, the Embassy of Spain in Belgium, and Instituto Cervantes Brussels for making this event possible!

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium). Registration still open! Meet Prof. Luis A. Leiva. He leads the Computational Interaction research group at University of Luxembourg and directs the Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS). He is the co-founder and former CTO of Sciling, an SME agency specialized in B2B Machine Learning solutions. His research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. His main research area is computational interaction, where he combines computational thinking with data-driven models and methods to enable, explain, and support user interaction. Come to BENELink and listen Prof. Luis at the second round table about “Artificial Intelligence: where are we heading towards?”. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ermpr9FM CENL Científicos Españoles - Países Bajos

👉 BENELink - October 19th - Antwerp (Belgium). Registration still open! Meet Prof. Luis A. Leiva. He leads the Computational Interaction research group at University of Luxembourg and directs the Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS). He is the co-founder and former CTO of Sciling, an SME agency specialized in B2B Machine Learning solutions. His research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. His main research area is computational interaction, where he combines computational thinking with data-driven models and methods to enable, explain, and support user interaction. Come to BENELink and listen Prof. Luis at the second round table about “Artificial Intelligence: where are we heading towards?”. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ermpr9FM CENL Científicos Españoles - Países Bajos