Karoline Faust is an Associate Professor at KU Leuven who heads the Lab of Microbial Systems Biology, which focuses on investigating microbial community dynamics in silico and in vitro. In particular, her team is studying interactions between human gut bacteria and the resulting dynamics with synthetic communities in controlled conditions. In addition, the team develops new tools for the analysis of microbiome data, specifically the analysis of microbial networks. The group's work is thus situated at the intersection of bioinformatics, systems biology, and microbial ecology.