Dr. Leen Leus works at the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit. She obtained Master's degrees in Horticulture (1995) and Agriculture and Crop Protection (1997) at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering of Ghent University. Since 1997, she has worked at ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) in ornamental plant breeding. She obtained her PhD in 2005 at Ghent University studying disease resistance breeding in roses. Since then, Dr. Leen Leus has continued research at ILVO with a focus on ornamental plant breeding and flow cytometry in plants and participated as (co)-author in more than 40 A1 publications on these topics.