Chief Technology Officer Michel Smans was born in Brussels, Belgium, and received a Master’s Degree of Mathematics from the University of Namur. After two years working as Research Assistant to Professor E. Schifflers, he joined the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon and started to transpose advanced mathematical techniques to descriptive epidemiology. He…

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Research Director Patrick Mullie was born in Mouscron, Belgium, and graduated in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University College of Leuven and in Epidemiology and Applied Statistics at the University of Maastricht. He subsequently obtained a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Catholic University of Leuven. Patrick Mullie’s main research activities focus on nutritional epidemiology,…

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Research Director Pierre Hainaut was born and educated in Belgium. He obtained an Msc in Science in 1980 and a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1987 from the University of Liège. From 1987 to 1994, he has been held postdoctoral positions in France (INSERM) and in the UK (University of Cambridge, University of York). Most…

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VP Population Research Philippe Autier was born in Brussels, Belgium, and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a diploma in tropical medicine from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp in 1983. He started his professional life by joining the humanitarian non-governmental organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where…

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It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Pierre Hainaut to iPRI. Pierre Hainaut was born and educated in Belgium. He obtained an Msc in Science in 1980 and a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1987 from the University of Liège. From 1987 to 1994, he has been held postdoctoral positions in France (INSERM)…

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