Lieven Scheire

Lieven Scheire (born 3 May 1981 in Ghent) is a Belgian comedian, presenter and science communicator. He attended secondary school at the Sint-Lodewijkscollege in Lokeren and then began a physics degree at Ghent University, but dropped out to become a stand-up comedian. He won the Lunatic Stand-up Comedy Award in 2002 and spent a year as an exchange student in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he attended Fjolbrautarskolinn i Breidholti.

Scheire co-founded the cabaret quartet Neveneffecten with his cousin Jonas Geirnaert, and the group won the jury prize at the Groninger Studenten Cabaret Festival in 2003. Neveneffecten toured Flanders and the Netherlands with their comedy theatre show and made various sketch shows for Flemish television. He has become well known among the Flemish public for his work in science communication, hosting several science shows as well as the Nerdland Podcast, and co-organising the Nerdland Festival together with Hetty Helsmoortel.

His television work includes Het Geslacht De Pauw (2005), Neveneffecten (2005), De laatste show (2007), Basta (2011), Scheire en de schepping (2012), De allesweter (2015), Superbrein (2016), Team Scheire (2018), Code van Coppens (2019) and Ons DNA (2022). According to Wikidata, Scheire is an honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp and a member of Mensa International.