Patrick De Boever

Patrick De Boever is Research Manager of the Centre of Excellence Microbial Systems Technology at the University of Antwerp since April 2020. He has a part-time appointment as a professor at the Centre of Environmental Sciences of Hasselt University since the year 2010. From 2007 until 2020, he worked as a project manager at VITO. He was team leader of the MONA group with a focus on retinal image analysis, with a particular interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence for screening and diagnosis in medical applications. The launch of the MONA spin-off is underway. He began his research career at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Biological Sciences from Ghent University and a Master of Science in Bio-Engineering from that same university.