Liliane Schoofs#
| Membership Number: | 6623 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://bio.kuleuven.be/df/ls |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1673-432X |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/liliane-schoofs-47307b9/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - current Full Professor KU Leuven, Head of Functional Genomics and Proteomics lab, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences http://bio.kuleuven.be/df/LS/index.htm
- 2017 - 2018 Chair of the NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Roadmap for Large Scale Research Facilities 2017-2018 (https://www.nwo.nl/en/aboutnwo/key+areas/large+research+facilities)
- 2013-2017 Vicerector Research Policy KU Leuven and member of Board of Directors of:
- VIB - Flemisch Institute of Biotechnology www.vib.be
- KU Leuven Researd and Development https://www.kuleuven.lrd
- ELEKTRON https://elektronvzw.be
- 2013-2017 Member of
- Academic Council KU Leuven
- Research Council KU Leuven
- Industrial Research Council KU Leuven
- LERU (League European Research Universities)
- 2013 - 2015 Member of Board of Directors of Flanders Research Foundation
- 2009 - 2016 Member of Flanders Hercules Foundation for heavy research equipment
- 2009 - 2013 Member of Flanders Research Foundation Committee of International Contacts
- 2004 - 2010 Member of Flanders Research Foundation Functional Biology evaluation committee
- 2009 - present Member of the council of the International Federation of Comparative Endocrinology Societies
- 2010 - 2014 Head of Division of Animal Physiology and Neurobiology KU Leuven
- 1996 Associate Professor KU Leuven
- 1988 - 1989 Postdoc, NATO research fellow at USDA, Agricultural Research Centre, College Station, Texas, USA
- 1988 PhD in Sciences KU Leuven
- 1987 INSERM Research fellow, University of Rouen, France
- 1984 Master Biological Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative endocrinoogy
- Biochemistry
- Physiology
- Neurobiology
- Role of brain neuropeptides in behaviour and physiology
Honours and Awards
- Advanced ERC grant in 2014: Peptidelearning: the role of neuropeptides in learning and memory
- 2016 - 2023 Member of ERC Advanced Grant Panel LS-5 Neurosciences and Neural Disorders
- 2010 Elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, Belgium (https://www.kvab.be])
- 2022 Elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
