Dr. Alexander Botzki is heading the Technology training unit VIB, the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium. The main mission of this unit is providing technology training in domains of VIB Technologies, Bioinformatics & AI, Software Development, and Research Data Management. Between2014 and 2022, he was head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core. From September 2009 to July 2014, he was responsible for the roll-out of E-Notebook (electronic lab notebook) to VIB’s researchers within 75 research groups. Before joining VIB, Alexander worked on various computational biology projects for Algonomics (bought by Lonza, 2008/2009) and DevGen (now Syngenta, from 2006-2008). During Alexander’s PostDoc at Sanofi Aventis in Strasbourg, he executed various virtual screening campaigns on the compound collection of the merged enterprise. He received his doctoral degree with the group of Prof. Dr. Armin Buschauer (University of Regensburg, Germany) on ‘Structure-based design of hyaluronidase inhibitors’.