Overview
Peter Verhaert is the founder of ProteoFormiX, which he established in August 2017, and is based in Vorselaar. Since October 2024 he has been a special lecturer in the Translational Cell & Tissue Research Unit at the University of Leuven Faculty of Medicine, Department of Imaging & Pathology, and a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has been an honorary professor at the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4i) since June 2017.
From August 2005 to December 2016 he was professor of analytical biotechnology and innovative peptide biology at Technische Universiteit Delft, and between 2009 and 2013 he was a theme and project leader at the Netherlands Proteomics Centre. He was editor-in-chief of Elsevier's EuPA Open Proteomics from 2012 to 2016. He also held visiting positions at Hasselt University and at the Departement de Chimie of the University of Liège, and was an expert scientist at VIB from 2004 to 2010.
Earlier he led the proteomics group at Organon and was a senior proteomics scientist at Innogenetics. He obtained a PhD in comparative neurobiology from KU Leuven in 1987 and was a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Waterloo.
Career history
In the news
- It was nice to present a keynote lecture to the Italian, Serbian and Hellenic proteomics associations in Napoli this week. Mille grazie Paola Roncada, Andrea Urbani and Marta Lualdi per l ‘invito!
- It was great to be in Kiel last week and contribute to the Kiel University Spatial Metabolomics Summer School! Thanks Manuel Liebeke, Joana P. Bernardes and Julie Pantel for organizing and attracting such a great cohort of motivated participants. It was a pleasure to learn about their projects and scientific ambitions! Kudos to #ChristianUrban for taking the pictures
- Back from an intense #imsc2026 with lovely people (and #Bocuse food), excellent science, exciting discussions in an awesome #Lyon location… And still I never seem to find enough time to properly talk to all busy colleagues and friends. It was great to see all of you no matter how short it was.
- È davvero un piacere essere a Milano per European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM). Ieri abbiamo avuto una bellissima partecipazione al mio flash talk; oggi speriamo di vedere molti di voi al poster n. 67 per discutere alcune delle mie affermazioni provocatorie (?) I miei migliori auguri per una splendida organizzazione!
- Happy to contribute to yet another 2026 Summer School! There is still time to register (until June 30) so feel free to do so!
- Beautiful Bruges wakes up to another promising day of great people sharing their latest spatial omics experience at #SpatialOmics2026, 2nd edition of this well-organized VIB Training & Conferences biannual meeting. Looking very much forward to participate (again)!
- In just one week from now, ProteoFormiX will present the latest developments of MSHC as innovative spatial multiplex multi-omics technology at the 2026 European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM) Workshop in Milano. Looking forward to discuss the progress of our global collaboration with pathologists and mass spectrometrists with all the proteomics bigshots present there! Thanks to the organizers, in particular Tiziana Bonaldi, for the opportunity to (flash) talk!
- Another day, another summer school, another country… So happy I could make it in time today to Amsterdam (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience 2026 Summer School) despite the Eurostar delay 😥 and talk about ProteoFormiX’ collaboration with #DickSwaab and his group, in what originally used to be a (Menonite) church (#Singelkerk)!
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