He works at the University of Antwerp within the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination and is involved in several vaccine preventable disease projects including the Viral Hepatitis Prevention board (www.vhpb.org) and the Human Papilloma Virus Prevention and Control board (www.hpvboard.org). He is coordinating a research team that investigates the use of first void urine as a liquid biomarker for follow-up of genital tract infections in women.