Mackens Shari

Shari Mackens (°8/7/1987) graduated as a medical doctor from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium, in 2012. Afterwards, she started working at the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital Brussels, Belgium, as a PhD student and as a specialist in training in obstetrics and gynaecology. From 2012 until 2017, she performed basic science research on endometrial receptivity and human embryo implantation. During these 5 years, she was funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). Her research was presented in her PhD thesis entitled ‘Hypes and hopes for endometrial receptivity in ART' (2020). At present, she is a gynaecologist at Brussels IVF (Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel) and a professor at the VUB with a specific interest in translational research focused on the role of the endometrium in assisted reproductive technologies.