Fien obtained her master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology at Ghent University in 2020. In 2021 she started as a teaching and research assistant at the department of Biotechnology (Ghent University). She is currently working on her PhD project focused on the phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted soils using hemp plants and the associated rhizospere microbial community. The impact of this phytoremediation process on the phenotype of the plants is studied by spectral analysis. Her supervisors are Leen De Gelder and Kris Audenaert.
