Koen Van den Berge has a background in Biology and Statistics, and obtained a PhD in statistical genomics from Ghent University. During his PhD, his work focussed on differential expression analysis of bulk- and single-cell RNA-sequencing studies, including statistical inference and multiple testing. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and Ghent University, where he is developing statistical methods for normalization and interpretation of high-throughput sequencing datasets.