Raphaël Marée is a senior Post-Doc at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Montefiore Institute, University of Liège. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Montefiore Institute. While in charge of the GIGA bioinformatics core facility, he initiated the development of the collaborative Cytomine web software in 2010, and he is now Head of Cytomine Research & Development. His research interests are in web software development, open science, machine/deep learning for image recognition, and their applications to biomedical imaging and other fields that involve big image datasets. He recently co-supervised the development of the BIAFLOWS web platform for reproducible image analysis and benchmarking during the NEUBIAS project. He is also co-leading software development work packages for EU projects: COMULIS for correlative multimodal imaging, and BigPicture for digital pathology.
Pierre Geurts is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liège. He completed his Master’s studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Liège in 1998 and earned his PH.D. in applied sciences at the same university in 2002. He was a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Evry (2005–2007). In 2011, he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liège, and was promoted to Professor in 2019. He is mainly interested in the design of (computationally and statistically efficient) supervised and semi-supervised learning algorithms in order to exploit structured input and output spaces (sequences, images, time series, graphs), with applications in bioinformatics, computer vision, and computer networks.
Marc Muller is currently a Senior Research Associate at the “Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique”, Principal Investigator at the GIGA Research Center, and Lecturer of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Liège (ULG). He obtained his MSc in Chemical Sciences at the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1980 and was awarded in 1986 a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences, specializing in DNA repair mechanisms at the same University of Liège. As a postdoctoral scientist in Germany, he was involved in studying gene regulation in various systems, before taking his present position and focusing on zebrafish embryo development and toxicology. He is the coordinator of the Biomedaqu project, supervisor of ESR2, and co-supervisor of ESR1. These projects aim to use the zebrafish as a model system for skeletal pathologies in humans and in fish. His research focuses on Developmental Biology, using the zebrafish as a model system and using molecular and genetic approaches. His main focus is on bone development and homeostasis, and his group is also studying more general perturbations of zebrafish physiology by physical (changes in gravity) or chemical treatments. Recent studies include studying the effects of food additives, endocrine disruptors, and mixtures thereof to better understand the intricate interactions between the various signaling pathways involved.
