Pieter Vancamp graduated as a biologist at the University of Leuven, and obtained his doctoral degree as a researcher at the research group of Comparative Endocrinology at the same university. Here, he was also involved in guiding practical sessions on stress and adaptive physiology, as well as animal structure and function.

He currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Paris, where he investigates the role of thyroid hormones in brain development.