Yves Van de Peer (YVdP) obtained his PhD in 1996 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. After a postdoctoral fellowship abroad, at the University of Konstanz, Germany, he was hired as Group Leader in Bioinformatics and Genome Biology at the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology in 2000, and as an Associate Professor at Ghent University in 2001. YVdP was promoted to Full Professor in 2008. Yves Van de Peer’s research group is considered a genome analysis powerhouse specialized in the study of the structure and evolution of (plant) genomes. Because of their unique expertise and experience in gene prediction, genome annotation, and genome analysis, his research group has been, and still is, involved in many international genome projects. YVdP is particularly interested in the study of gene and genome duplications as well as in the evolution of novel gene functions after duplication. He published more than 500 papers, many of which in high-profile interdisciplinary journals. YVdP’s has been cited more than 95,000 times (google scholar). For many consecutive years, Yves Van de Peer has been a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate). In 2013, he received an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “DOUBLE-UP: The evolutionary significance of genome duplications for natural and artificial organism populations”, and in 2018 another one entitled “DOUBLE-TROUBLE: Replaying the ‘genome duplication’ tape of life: the adaptive potential of polyploidy in a stressful or changing environment”. YVdP is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB; since 2012) and serves on the Editorial Boards of five international journals (The Plant Journal, PeerJ, Genome Biology and Evolution, Current Plant Biology, Frontiers in Genetics). YVdP is also part-time professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and at the College of Horticulture at Nanjing Agricultural University, China.