Principal Investigator

Lendert Gelens
lendert.gelens@kuleuven.be
Associate Professor
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Postdocs

Daniel Ruiz-Reynés
Postdoc
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Nikita Frolov
Postdoc
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Graduate Students

Liliana Piñeros Leyton
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Bartosz Prokop
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Daniel Cebrián Lacasa
daniel.cebrianlacasa@kuleuven.be
Joint PhD with Goryachev Lab (University of Edinburgh)
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Daniel studied Physics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and during his year abroad at Gothenburg University (Sweden) he decided that he wanted to specialise in Complex Systems. Afterwards, he did that by completing his master studies in the University of Balearic Islands and the IFISC (Spain). During his master courses he studied applications of physics in many different biological systems, which led him to the decision of doing his PhD at Gelens lab in collaboration with Goryachev group. His research consists on modeling the main coordinators of cell division by studying the patterns and waves created by them. He likes any kind of sport, specially climbing, and he enjoys reading a good book or watching a good movie during his free time.

Martina Boiardi
Joint PhD with Lammertyn lab
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Nicole Goede
Joint PhD with Brendonck lab
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Nicole began her studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biosciences in 2020. During her bachelor’s degree, she completed a semester abroad at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She then studied Environmental Sciences, also in Frankfurt am Main, and graduated with a master’s degree in 2023. Her master’s thesis dealt with the effect of textile dyes on the aquatic model organisms D. rerio and D. magna.
In 2023, she started a joint PhD in the Gelens lab and the Brendonck lab at KU Leuven. The focus of her work is to investigate the mechanisms by which temperature influences the development of ectothermic aquatic animals. She uses the test organisms of African clawed frogs, zebrafish, and annual killifish. This gives her the opportunity to research the fundamental aspects of life and relate these to the possible effects of climate change.
Nicole enjoys spending her free time reading a good book, she also loves dancing, hiking, and traveling as well as hanging out with friends.
Master Students
Jimmy Billen
2023 – 2024
Data-driven model discovery of oscillatory systems
Quinten De Block
2023 – 2024
Time-delay oscillatory systems
Robin Van den Bliek
2023 – 2024
Anomalous diffusion and control of biochemical waves in cell division