Question: What university conducts teaching and research of sciences in which Patrik Verstreken was a professor at?
Context: The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ("Catholic University of Leuven" ), abbreviated KU Leuven and also known as the University of Leuven, is a research university in the Dutch-speaking city of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium.  It conducts teaching, research, and services in the sciences, engineering, humanities, medicine, law, and social sciences. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public research institution in Mumbai and Hyderabad, India, dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences.  It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.  It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai and Narsingi, Hyderabad.  TIFR conducts research primarily in the natural sciences, mathematics, the biological sciences and theoretical computer science and is considered to be one among India's outstanding research centres.  TIFR has a graduate programme leading to a PhD in all the major fields of study.  TIFR is rated with an "A" grade, as determined by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).  It is the only one among 4 in the state of Maharashtra, the other 3 being the centrally funded Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE). Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai (; born 20 October 1949) is President of Mewar University, Chiittorgarh, Rajasthan, India.  Concurrently he serves as the Honorary President of the Human Development Foundation India, a Civil Society Organisation in the National Capital Region, New Delhi.  He was Executive Vice-President of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, Govt of Kerala during the period 2011-2014.  Simultaneously he held positions as the Principal Secretary, Science & Technology Dept of the Govt of Kerala, Chairman of the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority and the Kerala Biotechnology Commission.  Prior to that Prof. Pillai was the Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU ), New Delhi ( 2006-2011) holding simultaneously the position of the Chairman, Distance Education Council, Govt of India.  He served as Vice-Chairman & Chairman of the University Grants Commission, Govt of India, New Delhi during the period 2003-2006.  He was the Executive Director of the National Assessment and Accreditaition Council ( NAAC), Govt of India, during the period 2000-2003.  Prior to that Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai was the Vice-Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Govt of Kerala and held additional charge of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (1996-2000).  In 2000 he was on a Visiting Research Professor assignment in the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.  From 1983 to 1986, Dr. Pillai worked in various academic and research executive positions in the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam such as the Founder Professor and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, Dean of Faculty of Science, Founder Director of the School of Professional Distance Education, Director, College Development Council and Controller of Examinations of the University.  During the period 1977-1983, Dr. Pillai worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, on deputation from Calicut University, Kerala, in the Universities of Tubigen and Mainz, Germany.  From 1971 to 1983, he worked in the Universities of Kerala and Calicut University as UGC/CSIR Junor and Senior Research Fellow, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the area of Chemical Sciences.  Professor Rajasekharan Pillai is an Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.  Distinguished Fellow of the Kerala Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers ( IETE), New Delhi.  He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Banaglaore. Patrik Verstreken is a Belgian neuroscientist, highly cited in his field.  He was made professor at the KU Leuven and VIB in 2017, at the Center for Human Genetics.  In 2016 he became the Director of the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.  His work is focused on the function of neuronal synapses during health and neurological disease.  Major contributions include identifying molecular mechanisms by which neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease spread throughout the brain and identification of new defects causing Parkinson's disease. Mario Moises Alvarez is a Mexican researcher, born in Cd.  Juárez, Chihuahua.  He is a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technologies, at the Brigham Women's Hospital of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge Massachusetts.  He also collaborated as a visiting professor in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT (2015-2016).  He conducts research at the BIRC (Biomaterials Innovation Research Center) in the areas of Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, and Microfluidics.  Mario Moisés Alvarez is a Full Professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Tec de Monterrey), specializing in biopharmaceutical and biomedical engineering.  His work has been recognized by Level III membership in Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, a permanent membership in the AMC (Mexican Academy of Sciences), two granted US patents and nine granted Mexican patents.  He recently received the Rómulo Garza Insignia Award, the most prestigious research award from his institution, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Aleksandar Bošković is a social anthropologist from former Yugoslavia, who published twelve books and several hundred articles and book reviews on history and theory of anthropology, from a transactionalist and comparative perspective.  He is Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy), and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro.  Since 2 February 2017, Bošković also heads the Department of Anthropological Research (within the Center for Sociological and Anthropological Studies) at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, where he is Director of Research, and former (19 May 2009- 1 February 2017) Head of the Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research.  Aleksandar Bošković previously taught at the Universities of St Andrews (1994), Belgrade (then Yugoslavia, 1998), Brasília (Brazil, 1999-2001), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001-2003), and Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa, 2003-2006).  Between 2000 and 2014, Aleksandar Bošković was teaching in the Post-graduate Program in Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).  Just before the 2016 conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, he was selected as the EASA Book Series Editor.  Together with Han Vermeulen, he is co-convenor of the recently established History of Anthropology Network of the EASA. Sir Geoffrey Owen (born 16 April 1934) is an English academic and the former editor of The Financial Times.  Owen is Senior Fellow at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, where he conducts teaching and research in the field of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international competition. Said Hadjerrouit is a professor of informatics and computer science at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.  He got a doctoral degree (Dr.Ing) in 1992 in the field of medical expert systems and artificial intelligence, and a master's degree (1985) in software engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.  His teaching in Berlin focused mostly on informatics and society, philosophical and ethical issues of computing, and computers in developing countries.  In 1991, he moved from Berlin to Kristiansand, Norway, and worked at the Institute of Electronic Data processing at the University of Agder.  In 1994, he moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the same university, where he was appointed as an associate professor for teaching object-oriented programming, Web engineering, software development, and databases.  From 2004, his work shifted to didactics of informatics and computer science education, ICT in mathematics education, ICT-enhanced learning, Web-based learning resources, social software, and Web 2.0 technology.  In 2008, Hadjerrouit made a major shift in his research focus from didactics of informatics to mathematics education and use of digital tools in teaching and learning mathematics.  He has been teaching the doctoral course “Theories in the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics” since 2014.  He is also supervising two PhD students in the field of Flipped Classroom and documentational approach to mathematics education.  Hadjerrouit has more than 140 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.  He was awarded for Best Paper at Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference (SITE 2010) in San Diego, California, United States, and IADIS e-Society conference 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.  Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is an autonomous, grant-in-aid research institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.  It was established in 1946 by the Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science as MACS Research Institute and renamed as ARI in 1992 in honour and memory of its founder Director, late Professor Shankar Purushottam Agharkar.  It conducts research activities in animal sciences, microbial sciences and plant sciences. The Institute of Gerontology (IOG) at Wayne State University conducts research on the behavioral and social aspects of aging.  Located in Detroit, Michigan, the Institute has a strong focus on urban issues, especially disability, mobility and transportation, financial challenges, and disparities in health between ethnic groups.  Faculty at the Institute are jointly appointed with a home department in a complementary discipline, such as economics, physical therapy or nursing.  The Institute also maintains a Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging laboratory currently profiling brain changes in normal aging through traditional testing and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of participants brain structure and function.
Answer: KU Leuven