Teaching
Learning to model living systems
We teach how to quantitatively understand biological systems using predictive models. We teach in TU Delft's Life Sciences and Technology MSc program, and often organize or participate in international workshops and summer schools.
Courses
Microbial Physiology and Fermentation Technology
BioTech Delft · Advanced course
Lecturer
Two-week course linking metabolic stoichiometry, kinetics and systems physiology to strain design and large-scale fermentation.
Next edition: 11–21 January 2027
Course pageMulti-OmicsMulti-Omics approaches for Improvement of Industrial Microbes
BioTech Delft · Advanced course
Lecturer and course board member
Five-day course on integrating metabolomics, fluxomics, transcriptomics and proteomics with modeling to find targets for improving industrial microbes.
Next edition: 29 May – 2 June 2028
Course pageWorkshops & schools
September 2025Belgrade, Serbia
BiomeFUN — From Genomic Analysis to Functional Models in Microbiomes and Synthetic Consortia
Co-chair (with Ivica Dimkić, University of Belgrade); lecture and hands-on practicals
Five-day practical workshop for PhD students and postdocs, supported by FEMS — metagenomics, genome-scale metabolic modeling and structure–function landscapes of microbial consortia.
September 2025KU Leuven, Belgium
Summer School: Data Integration with Microbial Networks and Community Models
Invited lecturer
September 2025INRAE & Université Paris-Saclay, France
School of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Microbiomes
Invited lecturer
March 2019Boston University, USA
COMETS Hackathon
Instructor, COMETS developer team
Student projects
MSc and BSc students do their end projects in the lab — computational, experimental or both. Our alumni have moved on to both PhDs and industry.