De nieuwe Arenbergers

De Groep Wetenschap & Technologie heeft haar 30e editie van de Arenbergbrochure gepubliceerd waarin het pas aangesteld academisch personeel wordt voorgesteld. De professoren vertellen over zichzelf en hun onderzoek. Hier vind je in een oogopslag de elf professoren die actief zijn in de ingenieurs wetenschappen. De Arenbergbrochures kun je online vinden op https://set.kuleuven.be/

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ANNEMIE CAPROENS

RENAUD DETRY

Personal Born in Liège (Belgium) in 1982

Education Master of Science in Computer Engineering (ULiège, 2006). PhD in Engineering Sciences (ULiège, 2010)

Career Postdoc fellow of the Belgian FNRS and Swedish VR in 2010-2015, with a two-year stay at KTH Stockholm in 2012-2013. A research scientist and the group lead for the Perception Systems Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2016-2020), and an assistant professor within the ICTEAM institute of UCLouvain (2021). Associate professor at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Robot learning, both its fundamental aspects, and its applications to manu facturing, agriculture and aerospace. I design robotic systems that observe the world through cameras and other sensors and learn to adapt their behaviour based on what they see

Teaching Robotics and robot learning

Unit Dual appointment • Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT),

Processing Speech and Images (PSI) • Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

e-mail renaud.detry@kuleuven.be

KRISTIAAN DE GREVE

Personal Born in Wilrijk (Belgium) in 1980. Married to Serena, father of Elizabeth and Pia

Education Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (KU Leuven, 2003). PhD in Electrical Engineering (Stanford University, 2012). PhD minors in Physics, Management Science and Engineering (Stanford University, 2012). Harvard GSAS mini-MBA (Harvard, 2018)

Career BAEF and Stanford Graduate Fellow for PhD research at Stanford University. Springer Thesis Prize (2012). Fellow at Harvard University, Department of Physics, 2012-2019. Visiting fellow at imec, 2019 - ... Imec, principal member of technical staff, 2019-2022. Imec, program director Quantum Computing, 2022 - ... Part-time associate professor at KU Leuven since 2021 Research Experimental and theoretical quantum computing; nanoscience and advanced materials science in low dimensional systems; quantum optics, non-linear and ultrafast photonics

Teaching Introduction to Quantum Information and Quantum Computing; Introduction to Quantum Optics

Unit Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Micro- and Nano Systems (MNS)

e-mail kristiaan.degreve@kuleuven.be

DOMINIQUE DEVRIESE

Personal Born in Leuven in 1984. Single parent of Lien (8) and Toon (5)

Education Master of Science in Mathematics (KU Leuven, 2007). PhD in Computer Science (KU Leuven, 2014)

Career FWO scholarship and PhD on functional techniques for representing and specifying software at KU Leuven. FWO postdoc at KU Leuven. Assistant professor at the Software Languages Lab (VUB, Belgium). Associate professor at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Formalizing security guarantees offered by instruction set architectures and programming languages. Secure compilation, secure abstractions, and expressiveness of programming languages. Functional and dependently typed programming

Teaching Formal Systems and their Applications, Objectgericht programmeren (together with Bart Jacobs)

Unit Department of Computer Science, Distributed and Secure Software (DistriNet)

e-mail dominique.devriese@kuleuven.be

JORIS EVERAERTS

Personal Born in Herk-de-Stad (Belgium) in 1989

Education Master of Science in Materials Engineering (KU Leuven, 2012), PhD in Materials Engineering (KU Leuven, 2017)

Career PhD on fatigue crack initiation in titanium. Postdoctoral research assistant at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (2017-2019). College lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford (20182019). Postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Mechanical Metallurgy at EPFL in Switzerland (2019-2021). Assistant professor tenure track at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Multiscale and in-situ study of mechanical and fracture behaviour of materials. The goal is to examine experimentally how stress is distributed in materials and how this affects their mechanical behaviour and fracture properties. This will be achieved by using advanced microscopy techniques, in-situ micromechanical testing, as well as nondestructive techniques such as X-ray computer tomography

Teaching Fracture Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Failure Analysis. In the immediate future: Materialen, gebruik en degradatie

Unit Department of Materials Engineering, Structural Composites and Alloys, Integrity, and Nondestructive Testing (SCALINT)

e-mail joris.everaerts@kuleuven.be

JAN GOEDGEBEUR

Personal Born in Knokke-Heist (Belgium) in 1986. Married to Annelies Robaey and father of Noah and Jarne

Education Master of Science in Computer Science Engineering (Ghent University, 2009). PhD in Computer Science (Ghent University, 2013)

Career PhD fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University (2009-2013), including a research visit at the Australian National University (5 months). IT consultant in industry (1 year). FWO postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University and FNRS postdoctoral fellow at Université de Mons. Assistant professor tenure track at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Algorithmic and computational graph theory. This typically involves modelling problems from other areas (such as mathematics, chemistry, medicine, or industry) using graphs and designing and implementing algorithms to solve them

Teaching Gegevensstructuren en algoritmen, Objectgericht programmeren, Wetenschappelijke vorming

Unit Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

e-mail jan.goedgebeur@kuleuven.be

ANDREA JELIC

Personal Born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1985 and married to Aleksandar Staničić

Education Master of Architecture (University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2009), PhD in Architecture (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2015)

Career PhD studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. PhD fellowship and Young Talents Fund Scholarship (Serbian Ministry of Education). Postdoctoral researcher and later assistant professor in social sustainability within architecture at Aalborg University (Denmark, 2017-2021). Assistant professor tenure track at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Research on understanding how the built environment affects people’s bodily and emotional experiences and how that knowledge can be leveraged to create health promoting spaces for work and play

Teaching Actual topics in architecture and architecture and health (forthcoming years)

Unit Dual Appointment: • Department of Architecture, Architecture and Design • Department of Civil Engineering, Building

Physics and Sustainable Design

e-mail andrea.jelic@kuleuven.be

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ

Personal Born in Vienna (Austria) in 1981. Married to Heather Mariash

Education Master of Science in Ecology and Bachelor degree in Chinese Studies (University of Vienna, Austria, 2009). PhD Degree in Spatial-Ecology and Morphodynamics (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2014)

Career Postdoctoral researcher at the Ecosystem Management Group, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2014-2016. Assistant professor at the Physical Geography Department, Utrecht University, 2016-2019. Assistant professor at the School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, 2020-2021. Assistant professor at KU Leuven since October 2021. Research Utilizing lab-, field experiments, remote sensing, and numerical modelling to better understand the impact of biological organisms on coastal and riverine landscape development and resilience, Eco-Hydro-Morphodynamics. An increased understanding of interactions between biological and physical processes enables us to design resilient, sustainable and cost-effective management options to climate proof coastal systems, i.e., Nature-Based Solutions

Teaching River-geomorphology and Sediment Mechanics & Morphodynamics

Unit Dual appointment: • Department of Civil Engineering, Hydraulics and Geotechnics • Department of Earth and Environmental

Sciences, Geography and Tourism

e-mail Christian.schwarz@kuleuven.be

BART SORÉE

Personal Born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1973. Married, father of Wyne and Niele

Education Master of Science in Engineering Physics (UGent, 1998), Master of Science in Theoretical Physics (UGent, 1999), PhD in Theoretical Physics (KU Leuven, 2003)

Career imec (Leuven) since 2004. Since 2011 guest professor in the Physics Department at the University of Antwerp (UA). Guest professor at KU Leuven –Department of Electrical Engineering since 2014. Program coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at KU Leuven since 2017. Part-time professor at KU Leuven since October 2021 Research Device physics, quantum transport properties and the modelling and simulation of novel and future electronic, spintronic, topological and quantum devices. Wave-based computing devices based on spin waves and plasmons, novel energy filtering devices, tunnel FETs, spintronic devices and the theory and application of topological and collective excitations in novel devices and materials. Physics and theory of classical and quantum computation, (quantum) information theory and device physics for improving current and future quantum devices

Teaching Quantum Information, Introduction to Quantum Computing (KU Leuven), Semiconductor Physics (KU Leuven), Advanced Nanodevices (KU Leuven), Advanced Quantum Mechanics (UA), Device Physics (UA)

Unit Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Associated Division ESAT-INSYS (INSYS), Integrated Systems

IRENE TAURINO

Personal Born in Galatina (Lecce, Italy) in 1986

Education Double Master degree in Biomedical Engineering (Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, 2010). PhD in Microsystems and Microelectronics (EPFL, 2015)

Career PhD fellow (2011-2015) and postdoctoral fellow (2015-2016) at EPFL, Switzerland. Visiting scholar at Harvard university, USA in the Khademhosseini Laboratory (five months -2014). Researcher in aerosol science and technology at Philip Morris International R&D, Switzerland (2017-2021). Assistant professor tenure track at KU Leuven since June 2021

Research Adding new perspectives in nano- and microfabrication towards the develop ment of minimally sized electrochemical devices based on original nanoe-mail bart.soree@kuleuven.be

microstructured electrodes and other functional thin films with unprecedented electrochemical characteristics. Developing novel fabrication strategies to build these interfaces on soft bodycompliant substrates (stretchable, bioresorbable and stimuli-responsive) with reliable performance. Final goal: creating a link between electrical engineering, nano-microfabrication, and solidstate physics for medical applications

Teaching Microelectromechanical Structures (MEMS). Biomedical Measurements and Stimulation. Research Methods in Condensed Matter Physics. Problem-Solving & Design: Electrical Engineering

Unit Dual appointment • Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT),

Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) • Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Semiconductor Physics

e-mail irene.taurino@kuleuven.be

MATHY VANHOEF

Personal Born in Maaseik (Belgium)

Education Master of Science in Computer Science (UHasselt, 2012). PhD in Computer Science (KU Leuven, 2016)

Career Four-year FWO PhD fellowship on the topic of network security at KU Leuven. FWO post doctoral fellow on testing and verifying network protocol implementations at KU Leuven. Three-year post doctoral associate position at New York University Abu Dhabi. Assistant professor at KU Leuven since 2021 Research Research on network and system security, with a focus on Wi-Fi security. A key goal is bridging the gap between real-world code and theory. Examples of notable research in the past include the discovery of weaknesses in Wi-Fi and other network protocols such as HTTPS, as well as the standardization and implementation of new Wi-Fi defenses

Teaching Introduction to ICT Security and courses on computer programming

Unit Department of Computer Science, Distributed Systems and Computer Networks (DistriNet)

e-mail mathy.vanhoef@kuleuven.be

BEY VRANCKEN

Personal Born in Leuven (Belgium) in 1988. Partner of Caroline, and fresh father of Kasper

Education Master of Science in Materials Engineering (KU Leuven, 2011). PhD in Materials Engineering (KU Leuven, 2016)

Career IWT PhD researcher (20112016) and postdoctoral researcher (2017) at the Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven. Lawrence Fellow postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), California, USA (2017-2020). Recipient of the European Powder Metallurgy Association best thesis award, and a Lawrence Fellowship from LLNL, both in 2017. Postdoctoral researcher (2002-2021). Assistant professor tenure track at KU Leuven since 2021 Research Leveraging multi-laser systems, and new laser technology for laser based additive manufacturing techniques, with the aim of producing parts faster, and with more control over the local thermo mechanical conditions. In parallel and in combination, advancing in situ monitoring of additive manufacturing to enable closed loop process control that improves and certifies part quality during production

Teaching Problem-Solving & Design: Mechanical Engineering, Integrated Practicum, and Virtual Product Development

Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Processes and Systems (MaPS)

e-mail bey.vrancken@kuleuven.be