Marleen Roelofs has a Master degree in Marine and Lacustrine Sciences at Ghent University. She worked as a project officer at the Flanders Marine Institute. In 2015 she started working for the MarineTraining office at Ghent University where she was involved in the EMBC+ and IMBRSea  master programmes. From 2019 onwards, she is the project officer of the RIGHT Interreg project which aims to enhance regional innovation support capacity to increase long-term innovation levels and support Smart Specialisation Strategies by developing the skills of the workforce relevant for SMEs in the participating regions within the energy and blue sectors.