Marthe Vandeputte graduated from Ghent University in 2019 as a pharmacist with a Master’s in Drug Development. Later that year, she started a PhD at the Ghent University Laboratory of Toxicology under the promotorship of professor Christophe Stove. Her research focuses on the activity-based detection and characterization of new psychoactive substances, with a special focus on synthetic opioids. As new drugs will continue to appear on the recreational drug market, she hopes to carry on the pharmacological profiling of such substances to help estimate the potential danger their use might bring along.