Prof. Dr. Ellen Goossens graduated in Biomedical Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000. She was trained in male fertility preservation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Herman Tournaye at the Biology of the Testis laboratory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she obtained her doctoral degree in 2006. She undertook post-doctoral training in the same laboratory and became a laboratory coordinator in 2012. Currently, she is chairman of the Biology of the Testis team and focuses on cryopreservation, transplantation, and in vitro differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells. She has published more than 100 papers in (inter)national journals and contributed to 8 book chapters. She has been invited to speak at many national and international conferences. She was awarded the prize of the Royal Belgian Academy for Medicine for her work on the prevention of infertility after chemo- or radiotherapy. She is currently affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the exchange coordinator for bachelor's and master's students in Biomedical Sciences. She is the basic science officer of the ESHRE Special Interest Group Andrology and associate editor for two peer-reviewed journals in the field of reproduction. She is a board member of the Orchid-Net consortium and a member of the Andronet network.