Wouter de Laat studied biology at the Utrecht University and received a PhD in molecular biology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He develops and pioneers the use of 3C technologies in DNA diagnostics and research, aimed to understand the structure and function of the genome. Professor De Laat is co-inventor of the TLA technology, group leader at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht and Professor in Biomedical Genomics at the University Medical Center Utrecht.