Ward De Spiegelaere is assistant professor at Ghent University since 2016. He graduated as a master in Biology and performed his PhD in Veterinary Sciences in 2011. His research focuses on the study of angiogenesis and on the use of digital PCR as a diagnostic tool in Human and Veterinary Research. During his postdoctoral research, he researched the reservoir of latently infected cells by HIV. He is part of the Ghent University Center of Advanced Light Microscopy and is also co-founder and spokesperson of the Ghent University digital PCR consortium.