Stefaan P.O. Werbrouck is a professor in the Department of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University. He has headed the Laboratory for Applied In Vitro Plant Biotechnology at UGent since 1998. He has nearly 30 years of experience in plant tissue culture and has a strong track record in service projects exploring many aspects of the major sub-domains of this technology. His team consists of 14 PhD students. Their central motivation is to provide innovative solutions for the cloning of superior herbaceous and mainly woody plants for food, feed, fiber, pleasure, and pharma. His teaching disciplines include Horticultural crop production, Agricultural plant breeding and biotechnology, Forestry breeding and biotechnology, and Environmental plant biotechnology. He has 86 publications with 1227 citations and an h-index of 19 (Scopus, 19 October 2023).