Marleen Roelofs has a background in marine biology. She started working for the Marine Training Unit at Ghent University in 2015. She was involved in the coordination of the EMBC+ and IMBRSea master programmes, after that she was the project officer of the RIGHT Interreg project. In 2021 she became the liaison officer of EMBRC Belgium, the Belgian node of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC), a European research infrastructure.