Dr. Christophe Stove is an Associate Professor at Ghent University in Belgium, where he heads the Laboratory of Toxicology at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Besides teaching some 5 courses (including toxicology, drug toxicity and bioanalysis), he directs the Lab’s service activities (forensic toxicology and reference laboratory activities) and steers the research. The latter covers applied cell biology, as well as bioanalysis. Cell biological topics include the evaluation of signaling at selected G protein-coupled receptors, the pharmacological characterization of new psychoactive substances and the development of bio-assays as an alternative and universal drug screening approach in forensic toxicology and doping. Amongst the bioanalytical topics are vitamer analysis and microsampling applications and associated challenges in the context of therapeutic drug monitoring as well as the application of direct alcohol biomarkers in forensic toxicology. The lab’s work has resulted in several national and international awards and prizes.

Dr. Stove has an extensive publication record (over 250 publications, of which over 100 in the 2020’s), with many publications in leading journals in the field, and he serves as a corresponding author on the vast majority of these. He has an H-index of 48, has been cited over 7500 times (Google Scholar), is editorial board member of several journals and has served in numerous PhD evaluation and (inter)national selection committees. He was the promotor of 20 defended PhDs and currently supervises 8 PhD students. He is currently Board/Council Member of 2 national (BLT, KBGGG) and 2 international (TIAFT and IATDMCT) associations.