Sara Deleu graduated as a Master in veterinary medicine with a minor in research (UGent, 2019) and subsequently obtained her PhD in biomedical sciences (KULeuven, 2023) on the investigation of gut microbiome modulation in the management of inflammatory bowel disease. She is currently continuing her research as a post-doctoral researcher at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuoro (Rome, Italy) and as a visiting post-doc at Case Western Reserve Univerisity (Ohio, USA) for which she obtained the ECCO fellowship in 2024.