Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Vitor B. Pinheiro
After a PhD in Bacterial pathogenesis at University of Cambridge with Prof. David Ellar, I did 7 years of post-doctoral work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge with Dr. Phil Holliger. I have started my independent research career at UCL and Birkbeck in 2013 and moved to KU Leuven in September 2018.
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr. Rinaldo Montalvao
Protein rational design
Doctoral students
Mr. Santiago Chaillou
XNA applications
Ms. Paola Handal
XNA polymerases
Mr. Shamal Withanage
New antimicrobials
Research Assistants
Dr. Hoai Nguyen
Master and undergraduate students
Ms. Eline Jans
Directed evolution
Synthetic Biology through directed evolution 