Pr. Nicolas Baeyens, PhDDirecteur de recherche, Laboratoire de Physiologie et Pharmacologie, chargé de cours en physiologie cardiovasculaire ULB, Bruxelles

• EDUCATION

07/09/2011                           PhD in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

                                                  Faculty of Medicine, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

06/2007                                 Master degree in Experimental Biomedical Sciences (Suma cum laude)

                                                  Faculty of Medicine, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2007                                         FELASA certificate in animal experimentation (FELASA C)

• CURRENT POSITION

10/2017                                  Chair of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiology (Chargé de cours)

                                                  Faculty of Medicine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

• PREVIOUS POSITIONS

10/2017 – 01/2019             Visiting scientist

                                                  Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

09/2017 – 10/2017             Benevolent assistant

                                                   Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

04/2016 – 09/2017           Senior Research Associate (in charge of Martin Alexander Schwartz laboratory in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research)

                                                   Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

09/2011 – 03/2016             Postdoctoral fellow

School of Medicine, Yale Cardiovascular Research Centre, Yale University, USA (Supervisor: Martin A. Schwartz)

• RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2020                     Fonds pour la chirurgie cardiaque

                               Fonds Erasme (with Prof. B. Lubicz)

2019                    Mandat d’impulsion scientifique (MIS, FNRS)

                               Fonds d’encouragement à la recherche (FER, ULB)

2018                    ARC Consolidated: « Change of direction in cardiac fibrosis » (FWB)

Fonds Emile Defay (ULB)

                               Crédit d’encouragement à la recherche (CER, ULB)

2014 – 2016       American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship

2012 – 2014       WBI.World excellence scholarship

2011 – 2012     B.A.E.F. postdoctoral fellowship

2007 – 2011     FRS-FNRS F.R.I.A. PhD fellowship

• RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS

Postdoctoral researchers: Dr Charlène JOUY (FRA), Dr David RODRIGUEZ-SANCHEZ (SPA)

Graduate students: Edwige MARTIN-VALIENTE (FRA), Thai HA (BEL), Dr Yao DU (CHN), Dr Clément DHAINAUT (co-promoter, BEL), Dr César DAUCHOT (BEL)

Technicians/Lab managers : Maria Jose RODRIGUEZ-TREJO (SPA), Floriane VAN LIEFFERINGE (BEL)

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2017 - now         Professor, coordinator – General Physiology (30h+10h), Faculty of Medicine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

2019 – now        Professor, coordinator – Human Physiology (24h+24h), Brussels Engineering School, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

10/2017                Initiated the Get Connected! Matrix in Fibrosis meeting with Prof. Rachel Lennon and Dr Joe Swift, Manchester, UK (12 invited speakers).

04/12/2020         3^rd symposium of the BSC group of the Belgian Heart Foundation (reported to May 2021)