Veronique Van Speybroeck is full professor at the Ghent University and head of the Center for Molecular Modeling. She built up a large expertise in first principle kinetics in nanoporous materials in the frame of an ERC starting grant, awarded in 2009. Her current research focusses on first principle molecular dynamics simulations of complex chemical transformations in nanoporous materials, for which she received an ERC Consolidator grant in 2015.