Events
Meet, exchange ideas and connect across biomedical engineering.
Upcoming events
Winter SchoolNeurosoft Winter School 2026Soft and Functional Materials for Neural Applications — two days connecting neuroscience, biomaterials, flexible electronics and neural technologies.
Organized by the Softreset and Neurosoft consortia, this scientific exchange event brings together researchers working on soft biomaterials, flexible electronics and photonics, light-based therapies, and bio-modeling.
Location: Kapittelzaal, Sint-Pietersabdij, Sint-Pietersplein 9, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Participation: Free upon registration. You are welcome to attend either or both days. Complimentary lunch and coffee breaks are provided.
Register for free
Registration closes on 25 November 2026 at 23:59.
Monday 30 November · 12:00–17:00
Optional Softreset closing event. Discover the achievements of the GOA Softreset project in soft technologies for electrical and optical modulation of the brain, together with the researchers involved.
Tuesday 1 December · 08:30–19:00
The main Winter School features international experts, including Xenofon Strakosas, Christian Gossler and Paul Wieringa, a publishing workshop with an editor from Advanced Materials, and opportunities for networking and collaboration.
- 08:30–09:00
- Welcome & coffee
- 09:00–09:15
- Opening remarks — Organizers
- 09:15–10:00
- Softreset: Soft technologies for electrical and optical modulation — Robrecht Raedt
- 10:00–10:30
- Spin-off Incorporation: Optogenetic Hearing Restoration — Christian Gossler
- 10:30–11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:00–12:30
- Workshop: Publishing in Advanced Materials — Dr. Swathi Lingam (Wiley)
- 12:30–13:30
- Complimentary lunch break
- 13:30–13:50
- Mixed Conducting Gels: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications — Matias Picchio
- 13:50–14:20
- Lactide-based Soft Piezoelectric Systems — Jone Munoz Ugartemendia
- 14:20–15:00
- Conducting Polymers for Bioelectronics (keynote) — Xenofon Strakosas
- 15:00–15:30
- Coffee break
- 15:30–15:45
- Mechanically Active Hydrogel Platform for Targeted Glioblastoma Therapy — Taryn Clark
- 15:45–16:15
- Multilayer Nanoparticles and Their Neuroimmunomodulatory Potential — Aitor Larranaga
- 16:15–17:00
- Nerve Regeneration (keynote) — Paul Wieringa
- 17:00–19:00
- Evening networking reception & drinks
Public eventPublic launch of iBMEConnecting clinical and societal needs, technology and research, and translation and industry.
Ghent University formally launches the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, bringing together its expertise in medical technology within one institute. The evening connects researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, industry and the wider health technology community.
The launch is planned in the presence of Rector Petra De Sutter and Deans Filip De Turck and Piet Hoebeke. The event will be held in English.
Our programme explores the role of medical technology in future healthcare, followed by a round-table discussion, networking and laboratory visits.
Programme
- 18:00–18:15
- Welcome by the Rector and introduction to iBME.
- 18:15–19:00
- The role of medical technology in the healthcare of the future: perspectives from policy, hospitals and the care sector.
- 19:00–19:40
- Round-table discussion on medical technology and iBME in the health technology ecosystem, bringing together the first-session speakers and representatives of industry/spin-offs, investors and Flemish MedTech.
- 19:40–19:45
- Closing remarks.
- 19:45–23:00
- Reception, walking dinner, networking and laboratory visits.
Location: Campus Ardoyen, Zwijnaarde.
Further venue and registration details will follow.
New events will be announced soon.
Past events
Past community eventiBME community gathering & poster fairGet to know the people, research groups and clusters that make up iBME.
An opportunity for our internal community to meet, discover one another’s research and build connections across groups. The programme focused on introducing iBME and its research clusters, with space for exchange and getting to know colleagues.
For: the iBME research community.
Location: iGent, ground floor.
Starts: 16:30.
Past symposiumSymposium on Innovations in Hearing Technology and TreatmentCelebrating five years of the Ghent Auditory Science Platform and ten years of Hearing Technology at UGent.
A day of scientific exchange celebrating five years of the Ghent Auditory Science Platform (GASP) and ten years of Hearing Technology at Ghent University.
Venue: De Krook, zaal De Blauwe Vogel, Miriam Makebaplein 1, 9000 Gent.
Programme: 09:30–19:00, including registration and the reception.
Morning: GASP research
Short talks explored drug therapies for hearing loss, auditory cognition and speech understanding, future neural interfaces, cochlear implants, hearing technology and mechanisms, and perception and long-term effects.
Afternoon: expert keynotes
- Sarah Verhulst — hearing technology: past and future.
- Brian Moore — advances in hearing technology.
- Christopher Shera — cochlear modelling in the time of optical coherence tomography.
- Torsten Dau — from neural signatures to compensation strategies and precision audiology.
The day concluded with closing remarks, a reception and walking dinner.