Siebe Lievens

Dr. ing. Siebe Lievens holds an Engineering degree in Biochemistry and obtained in 2023 a PhD in Engineering Technology (KU Leuven, Belgium) and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Antwerp, Belgium). During his joint-PhD, he focussed on the mutual effects between microplastics and black soldier fly larvae (H. illucens), both biologically and chemically. Following his joint-PhD, he conducted a postdoc in Analytical Chemistry at VITO (Flemish Institute of Technological Research) focusing on the analysis of microplastics and its accompanying additive chemicals, using Py-GC-MS and DART-MS. Since 2025, he holds a position as research manager at the Academic Center of Excellence in Separation Science and Sensing of the University of Liège (Belgium), responsible of the microplastic research line developing comprehensive methods to analyse complex matrix containing microplastics using Py-GC×GC-ToFMS.