Tom Desmet received a doctorate from Ghent University (2005) for elucidating structure-function relationships in (hemi)cellulases. After a postdoctoral stay at Wageningen University, he was appointed Associate Professor at the Centre for Synthetic Biology (2011), where he heads the Unit for Enzyme and Carbohydrate Technology. He has supervised 35 doctoral students and 7 postdocs, and teaches enzyme-related courses at the universities of both Ghent and Antwerp. He was invited speaker at leading conferences in the field of biocatalysis (Biocat & Biotrans) as well as carbohydrates (CBM & EuroCarb), has (co)authored more than 100 papers and holds 5 patents. He also has organized the 4th Novel Enzymes Conference, and was the overall coordinator of the collaborative projects 'SuSy' (EC/FP7) and 'GlycoProFit' (FWO/SBO).
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