Christophe Blockeel
MD, PhD
Christophe Blockeel is Medical Director of Brussels IVF, the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at University Hospital Brussels in Belgium, and a visiting professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, at the School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He is a member of the Alpha Scientists Executive Board and he was the president of the Belgian Society for Reproductive Medicine from 2017 until 2020. Since 2024, he is the Chair of the Special Interest Group Reproductive Endocrinology of ESHRE.
Professor Blockeel graduated from the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 2000 and became a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2005. In 2008, he was recognised as a subspecialist in reproductive medicine and surgery by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology and the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He completed his PhD in 2012 with a thesis entitled ‘The optimisation of the follicular phase in GnRH antagonist cycles’ and became a professor at the Free Brussels University in the same year.
Professor Blockeel has worked in the field of fertility for more than 20 years, with an interest primarily in reproductive endocrinology. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals and lectured at numerous international meetings.