IOF Business Development Centers
The Business Development Centers at Ghent University group complementary research departments by application area or domain of expertise. Together they constitute the Industrial Liaison Network.
Engineering, Energy & Materials
- Biomolecules - Nele Ameloot
- Production of Bio-based molecules and engineering tools
- ChemTech
- Chemistry & Water Technologies
- CleanChem - Bart Hommez
- Cleantech for sustainable chemical production
- Composites - Ilse Christiaens
- Innovative technology platform for composites
- DuraBUILDmaterials - Stijn Matthys
- Innovative technologies for durable building materials and structures
- EnerGhentIC - Judith Ooms
- Energy Research & Innovation Community
- Machineries & Factories - Jeroen De Maeyer
- Machine & factory design and optimization; industry 4.0
- Metals - Karen Hemelsoet
- Metals research platform, from nano to mega, from material to application
- TEX IS MORE - Chris Deloof
- textile innovations for protection, comfort and care
Health Tech & Pharma
- ACT-T - Tim Desmet
- Advanced Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Biomarked - Daisy Flamez
- Pre-clinical biomarker -omics platforms and BioIT, diagnostics, RNA abled therapies
- ChemTech Life sciences- An Van den Bulcke
- Chemistry Technologies for the life sciences
- HyCT - Ewout Vansteenkiste
- Hybrid CT image building technologies for material and life sciences applications
- Protein Technologies
- Proteomics & biopharmaceutical protein production and delivery technologies
- UGent DISCOVERE - Dominic De Groote
- Drug discovery, drug delivery and drug manufacturing
- Victoris - Kristof De Mey
- Technological optimization, research and innovation in sport
Electronics, Photonics & Digital
- e-Poly - Frederik Leys
- Center for advanced, polymer based microsystems and applications
- INDATA (IDLab) - Filip Louagie & Wouter Haerick
- Internet & Data Lab
- i-Know - Ljiljana Platisa
- Intelligent information management
- nb-photonics - Eva Ryckeboer
- Photonics, components, systems, applications
Agro, Vet & Food
- BLUe Gent - Margriet Drouillon
- Innovations in aquaculture and blue life sciences
- CropFit - Maaike Perneel
- Biostimulants and Biocontrol for plants
- End-of-Waste - Nathan De Geyter
- Creating value out of organic waste and residues
- Food2Know - Barbara Vanhoecke
- Feed, Food & Health
- PROVAXS - Sven Arnouts
- Innovation in animal health
Social Sciences and Humanities
- i4S - Arne Dormaels
- Smart Solutions for Secure Societies
- Liaison Officer Social Sciences and Humanities Faculties - Zoë Imhof