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Lukas Van Oudenhove is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, affiliated with the Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism and the Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders unit. He is a member of interdisciplinary institutes including the Leuven Centre for Health Humanities, KU Leuven Brain Institute, and Leuven.AI. His research focuses on the gut-brain axis, neuroinflammation, and psychosomatic mechanisms in functional disorders.
- Academic Rank: Professor
- Key Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine (KU Leuven), LCH², LBI, Leuven.AI
His research spans functional brain imaging of visceral pain, stress-modulated fear memory, microbiome metabolite effects on cognition, and neuroinflammatory mechanisms in fatigue. He leads projects like The gut-immune-brain axis as key to IBD fatigue and Neuroinflammation in sleep-pain relationships. Recent work explores butyrate's epigenetic modulation of fear memory and erythritol's impact on reward systems.
Scientific contributions include a psychobiological model for gut-brain disorders and insights into interoceptive differences in fibromyalgia. Awards:
- Poster Prize Award (4th European Stress Conference, 2025)
He serves on governance bodies:
- Council of the Faculty of Medicine (senior academic staff)
- Council/Board of the Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism
