Thierry Voet graduated with a Master in bioscience engineering: cell and gene biotechnology from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium), and he holds an inter-university post-graduate in human genetics. Following his PhD at KU Leuven, he pioneered single-cell microarray analyses, and in 2010, he joined the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (Sanger, UK) to explore next-generation sequencing technologies for single-cell genomics, work that led to an associate faculty membership. In 2014, he became associate professor at KU Leuven following a tenure track, and was appointed professor in 2017 and full professor in 2022. He also founded and directs the KU Leuven Institute for Single Cell Omics (LISCO). His research focuses on developing methods for single-cell and spatial multi-omics, and using these tools to study the biology of cells in human development, aging and disease.