Liese Devos obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from Ghent University in 2024 and is currently completing her master’s degree in the same field. She is conducting her master’s thesis in the lab of Prof. Dr. Sophia Maschalidi at the VIB Center for Inflammation Research. Her research focuses on how disruptions in lysosome‑related genes influence apoptotic cell clearance mediated by dendritic cells.
In the summer of 2024, Liese completed a three‑week internship in the lab of Prof. Dr. Geert Van Loo at VIB, investigating the role of ATG9A in intestinal inflammation. During the 2024–2025 academic year, she spent a full year on Erasmus exchange at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In the second semester of her exchange, she carried out an additional bachelor research project in the lab of Prof. Dr. Wilfried Meijer at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, where she studied Bacillus subtilis and its native plasmid pLS20.
