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Hugo THIENPONT (BE)
Scientist in Residency with Voldemars JOHANSONS
Biography Hugo Thienpont (20-08-1961) is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He chairs the Applied Physics and Photonics Department and is director of its photonics research group B-PHOT (Brussels Photonics Team), which he built over the years and which today counts more than 60 scientists, engineers, and administrative and technical staff. He graduated as an Electrotechnical Engineer with majors in Applied Physics in 1984 and received his PhD in Applied Sciences in 1990, both at the VUB. Since 2012 Hugo is also VUB Vice-Rector for Innovation and Industrial policy.
"Working together with an artist in the framework of the Studiotopia program allows me and my colleague researchers to come out of our science comfort zone."
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