Dr. Piepers is passionate about mastitis and milk quality. As a veterinarian and researcher, Sofie uses her expertise to coach and train vets in mastitis management and encourages them to become the best udder health experts they can be. She loves networking, collecting new information at scientific conferences, and later turning that knowledge into practice.

Dr. Piepers graduated as a vet in 2005 and since that time she has been a member of M-team UGent. After graduation, Sofie immediately started working on her PhD on heifer mastitis at the Department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health. In 2010, she obtained her Doctor in Veterinary Medicine degree at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Ghent University (Belgium).

In 2014, she was co-organizer of the first National Mastitis Council Regional Meeting outside the US and Canada. Since 2019, she is also appointed as visiting professor at Ghent University. As well, she is co-editor-in-chief of M²-magazine.

MEX™ is a spin-off of Ghent University that is specialized in the development of trainings and tools to make mastitis management easy for vets and other dairy advisors.