... joined the EPO in 2001 with a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Leuven and having worked as a PostDoc at the department for molecular biology (University of Ghent). At the EPO (The Hague) he is considered as a specialist in DNA and protein sequence searches. He has given presentations on this subject in various national patent offices and at the EPO's premier patent search seminar "Search Matters". As a patent examiner he is involved in all aspects of the procedure, and in training colleagues.