Wim Trypsteen has a background in Biomedical Sciences (BSc+MSc 2012) and Bioinformatics (BSc 2017) and obtained his PhD in Health Sciences in 2018. His PhD work focused on the use of dPCR in virology/HIV and the discovery of long non-coding RNAs in HIV infection. Currently, Wim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Medical Genetics (lab of Prof. Vandesompele) and coordinator of the UGent dPCR Core Facility where he focuses on wet-lab assay development (virology, oncology), streamlining dPCR services across university researchers and implementing new dPCR data analysis tools. He is founding member of the Ghent University Digital PCR consortium, which is an established center of excellence for dPCR research.

Wim holds 10+ years of experience in dPCR, ranging wet-lab assay development skills to advanced data analysis methods and is familiar with all major dPCR platforms. Recently, Wim published on the first-in-its-kind 5-color dPCR HIV assay and is driving several landmark dPCR research projects at Ghent University. Next to this, he helps developing international ISO guidelines concerning the use of dPCR as a member of the Belgian National Measurements Institute, routinely presents (as invited speaker) at (inter)national scientific conferences and offers his expertise as an advisory board member for dPCR companies (Qiagen) and key opinion leader on news platforms such as genomeweb. Wim supports the organizational efforts of this course/symposium and provides practical dPCR training sessions to the participants. Wim routinely teaches dPCR courses at Ghent University and (co-)authored 50+ scientific articles of which 20+ on digital PCR. Currently, his H index is 20 with 1600 citations, of which 150 can be attributed to his dPCR data analysis tool publication (Google Scholar, January 2025).