

Dr. De Spiegeleer was born in Ghent on the 29th of April 1989. He graduated with greatest distinction as master in Medical Sciences at Ghent University in 2014 and was accepted for the specialization Internal Medicine in the same year (first in ranking). In 2017, he received a FWO-aspirant grant to start his PhD at Ghent University under the supervision of prof. dr. Nele Van Den Noortgate (geriatrics department UZ Ghent), prof. dr. Dirk Elewaut (rheumatology department UZ Ghent) and dr. Evelien Wynendaele (DruQuaR laboratory). During his PhD, he received the Marie-Thérèse De Lava & Robert Schneider Grant of the King Boudouin Foundation.
Dr. De Spiegeleer is de auteur en co-auteur van verschillende wetenschappelijke publicaties in internationale tijdschriften zoals Age and Ageing, Clinical and Translational Medicine en BBA-Molecular Basis of Disease. Hij nam ook actief deel aan verschillende nationale en internationale conferenties over veroudering, spierafbraak en immunologie. Om het veelbelovende onderzoek naar veroudering voort te zetten kreeg hij ondersteuning van het Gezondheids-, Innovatie- en Onderzoeksfonds UZ Gent om de nieuwe onderzoeksgroep TRIGG (Translational Research in Immunosenescence, Gerontology and Geriatrics) op te richten.
Dr. De Spiegeleer also teaches qPCR practica and supervises master’s theses of Medical, Paramedical and Pharmaceutical students. In addition, he is an active member of the Board of Directors of different care homes in Flanders, and is involved in different national and international sarcopenia working groups (e.g. EUGMS sarcopenia working group).