Prof. Dr. Katrien De Bock

Katrien De Bock is professor for Exercise and Health and a member of the Institute for Human movement Sciences and Sport at ETH Zürich. She received a PhD in rehabilitation sciences in 2007 from the KU Leuven for her work on the metabolic adaptations to exercise in the fasted state. Thereafter, she joined the Vesalius Research Center (VIB, Belgium) under the directorship of Prof. Peter Carmeliet, where she has been investigating the metabolic characteristics of endothelial cells as a novel treatment target for anti-angiogenic therapy (2007-2013). After a short intensive research stay in the lab of Prof. Julian Aragones (2014, AU Madrid, Spain) to study the role of the hypoxia sensing system in metabolism, she became assistant professor of Exercise Physiology in Leuven (Belgium). This position she soon left to take up the professorship for Exercise and Health at ETH, which is endowed by the Wilhelm Schulthess-Stiftung. Her lab will study the metabolic and molecular interaction between nutrient delivery (by blood vessels) and nutrient utilisation (by muscle), and its impact on health.