Sander completed his Master of Science in Genetics, Cell and Development Biology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2014. The three subsequent years he worked as a Biology and Physics teacher at the International Montessori School of Brussels. In October 2018 he started his PhD at the faculty of medicine and health sciences at the University of Antwerp. He will use whole genome sequencing and RNA sequencing data in order to respectively investigate the within-host MTB population dynamics and MTB transcriptional responses under drug pressure. Next he is also studying the effect of epigenetic modifications in MTB under drug pressure