Claudia Spits is a professor at the faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she teaches on stem cell biology. She is the principal investigator of group focusing on understanding how genetic variation determines cell fate in pluripotent cells, including stem cells and early human embryonic development (https://grad.research.vub.be/spits-lab). She has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications on this topic, in journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Cell Stem Cell and ELife. Next to publishing, she is strongly involved in the sharing of scientific knowledge through meetings and societies. She has been very active within the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), where she has been deputy and later coordinator of the special interest group Reproduction and Genetics. She is co-founder and president of the Belgian Society for Stem Cell Research, steering committee member of the International Stem Cell Initiative and Belgian Representative for the Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Registry.


