LUCE BEECKMANS

Personal

Born in Ghent (Belgium) on January 4, 1983. Married to Dirk and happy parents of Milan (2013), Nora (2015) and Ina (2018)

Education

Master in Engineering Sciences: Architecture, option Urban Planning (Ghent University, 2005); PhD in Urbanism (Groningen University, 2013)

Career

Awarded PhD on colonial and post-colonial urban development in sub-Saharan Africa, Groningen University (2013). Junior postdoctoral fellow (2015-2019) and senior postdoctoral fellow (2019-2022) of the Research FoundationFlanders (FWO), affiliated to Ghent University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning), KU Leuven University (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology) and Antwerp University (Urban Studies Institute) on materialities of

Dominik Bongartz

Personal

Born in Cologne (Germany) in 1989. Married to Hanna, father of Felix

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen University, 2012), Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MIT, 2014), PhD in Process Systems Engineering (RWTH, 2020)

Career

Doctoral researcher (2014-2020) and group leader (2020-2022) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Visiting researcher at Imperial College London, UK (2022). Assistant professor tenure-track at KU Leuven since October 2022 trans-national migration (particularly from sub-Saharan Africa). Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University (2020-2023). BOFZAP research professor tenure track at Department of Architecture, KU Leuven since October 2022

Research

Migration, city, and architecture: housing and homemaking of refugees and migrants and more broadly urban diversity and inclusion. Architectural/urban ethnography and (counter-) mapping, transdisciplinary knowledge production and action-research

Teaching Modernity and Urbanity, Housing

Unit

Department of Architecture e-mail luce.beeckmans@kuleuven.be

Research

Developing optimization-based methods for design and operation of chemical production processes. A focus is on methods for solving nonconvex continuous or mixed-integer optimization problems, as well as on leveraging data-driven surrogate models of chemical process units. Applications include processes for chemical energy storage and carbon dioxide capture and utilization

Teaching Systems analysis of chemical processes. Process control in the chemical industry

Unit

Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Reactor Engineering and Safety (CREaS) e-mail dominik.bongartz@kuleuven.be