Hein Imberechts holds a degree of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Ghent and obtained a PhD in 1992 at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.
From 2001 to 2015 he was the Head of Department of bacteriology at the Belgian reference laboratory for infectious animal diseases, now Sciensano. Since 2015 he is project manager at the Strategy & External Positioning service at Sciensano. He is member of the CWG on Animal Health and Welfare Research, of which he became Chair in 2019. Since 2024 he is member of the management team of the European Partnership on Animal Health & Welfare. Between 2018 and 2023, he was scientific coordinator of the One Health European Joint Programme together with ANSES in France. Since 2018, he is Vice-President of the European One Health Association.
