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Born 14.10.1972 in Asse, Belgium

Belgian nationality

KU Leuven, Department of Chemical Engineering,

ProcESS – Process Engineering for Sustainable Systems

Celestijnenlaan 200F, B – 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Tel. +32 16 32.23.40

Chemical Engineer, ir., KU Leuven, 1995

PhD in Applied Sciences, Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, 20 Sept. 2000. Dissertation: “Removal of organic molecules from aqueous solution by nanofiltration”

Post-docs: 2000-2001: Research Council KU Leuven; 2001-2004: FWO-Vlaanderen (Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders); Visiting scholar in the University of North Carolina (UNC-Chapel Hill, April-June 2002) and Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane (ITM-CNR, Cosenza, Italy, March-September 2003) 

Positions:  2002-2004: part-time lecturer, KU Leuven, Belgium; 2004-2006: lecturer, KU Leuven, Belgium; Visiting researcher in Universita della Calabria and ITM-CNR, Italy in March-April 2005, and in Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Lappeenranta, Finland in July-August 2007; 2006-2009: senior lecturer, KU Leuven, Belgium; May 2010: Visiting professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain; June 2010: Visiting professor, Université de Rennes 1, France; October 2013: Full professor, KU Leuven

Current position:  (since 01/10/09): full time research professor, KU Leuven, Belgium; Visiting professor, Dalian University of Technology, China (2013-2014); Extraordinary Professor at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa (since April 2014)

Other functions:  Founding President of the World Association of Membrane Societies (WA-MS) from 2017 to 2020;

                             President of the European Membrane Society (2013-2017); Member of the European Membrane Society (EMS) Council from 2007 to 2011; elected Vice-President from 2009 to 2011;

Editor of Separation and Purification Technology (Elsevier) with IF 7.312 (since Jan. 2009);

Associate Editor (2007-2012) and Executive Editor (since 2012) of Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (Wiley) with IF 3.174;

Associate Editor of Applied Water Science (Springer) and Journal of Membrane Science and Research;

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Membrane Science, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Membrane Water Treatment, Desalination & Water Treatment, Applied Sciences, and Archives of Environmental Protection.

Member of the EPSRC College, UK (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) from 2009 to 2012;

Regular reviewer for scientific funding bodies in EU, France, Portugal, UK, USA, Poland, Romania, Singapore, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Greece and Finland;

Board Member of B-IWA (Belgian Committee of the International Water Association) (2001-2013);

Clarivate Highly Cited researcher in 2022 and 2023.

Separation techniques, in particular membrane processes including electrodialysis, electrodriven membrane processes, and pressure driven membrane processes; process intensification; physico-chemical treatment of process water and waste water

• PhD Honoris Causa at the University "Dunarea de Jos" of Galati, Romania (2013).

• Winner of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, 4th Award (2008-2010) in the 3rd Branch – Alternative (Non-traditional) Water Resources.

• Laureate of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts) in the class of Nature Sciences, 2006.

• Winner of the Annual Award of the European Membrane Society (EMS) for the best journal paper on membrane science and engineering published in 2002.

• Winner of the Textile Innovation Award 2001 (awarded by the federation of the Flemish textile industry, Centexbel).

700+ in international peer-reviewed journals

40,000 citations

h-index 103 (September 2024)

30 chapters in books

2 books edited

Promoter of 66 finished PhD theses and 27 ongoing PhD theses.

I am active reviewer for 99 different ISI journals (a list can be provided). The number of reviews per journal ranges between 1 and 70 during the last 10 years.

I am active in development collaboration projects in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Cuba, South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania.

• Water Technology (3 ECTS 100%) (since 2002)  (Technical aspects of the production of process water and drinking water: unit operations, water quality, sustainable use of water).
• Waste Water Treatment (3 ECTS co-teaching 50% + 2 ECTS 100%) (since 2004) Physico-chemical treatment of waste water: primary, tertiary treatment, water reuse.
• Separation processes (6 ECTS, co-teaching 50%) (since 2004) (Separation processes used in process technology: distillation, extraction, adsorption, leaching).
• Advanced Separation Processes (3 ECTS 100%) (since 2004) (Membrane processes, advanced distillation, hybrid separation processes).
• Air Pollution & Control (3 ECTS, co-teaching 50%) (since 2012) (Air pollution remediation technologies, including incineration, condensation, adsorption, absorption, membrane separation, bioremediation, and special focus on CO₂, SO₂ and NO_x).

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