Wim Teughels PhD, DDS

Professor Wim Teughels graduated in 2000 as a dentist at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium. At the same university, he obtained a 2006 degree as a specialist in Periodontology and he defended successfully his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Microbial Interactions Involved in Bacterial Colonization of Epithelial Cells”. He also received a “European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) certificate in Periodontology”. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and he was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the KULeuven. His teaching obligations consist of a variety of subjects within the field of Periodontology and Human Anatomy. Currently, he works as a professor at the KULeuven and as the vice-head of the Periodontology section of the University Hospitals Leuven.

Wim Teughel's research focuses on Periodontology and oral microbiology with a special emphasis on bacterial adhesion, microbial interactions, antimicrobials, and probiotics. His research work has been funded by grants from the KULeuven, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, NIH (NIDCR), and different companies. This has led to more than 170 publications in international journals and more than 10 chapters in books. He received 5 national and 3 international awards and is frequently invited both nationally and internationally for lectures regarding the concept of “probiotics”. In 2012, Prof. Teughels became an associate editor for the Journal of Periodontal Research and an associate editor for “Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology” textbook.