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Scientific Council (WAC)
The Scientific Council (WAC) is an advisory body for the SCK•CEN Board of Directors and the Management Committee. In general, the WAC is commissioned to provide advice about the technical–scientific and social relevance and to assess the quality of the research of SCK•CEN based upon a number of dossiers per field of activity.
The WAC also provides advice on education and training, communication, networking and valorisation. The main objective is to develop, evaluate and correct the short and long term strategy of SCK•CEN as far as its activities are concerned.
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President Prof. Em. Michel Giot (°1941) was full professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL –Louvain-la-Neuve) teaching and carrying out research in thermodynamics, single- and two-phase transport phenomena, major technological hazards, nuclear thermalhydraulics. Ingénieur civil électricien (UCL, 1964), Docteur en sciences appliquées (Mécanique, UCL, 1970), Honorary doctorate from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. Editorial duties: Member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Archives of Thermodynamics , Multiphase Science and Technology, and Other duties: member of the Board of Governors of SCK•CEN, member of the “Conseil Scientifique” of DEN (CEA-France), member of the Scientific Committee of the Department “Nuclear Energy and Safety” of the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), member of the Scientific Council of the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC-AFCN), member of the Evaluation Committee of the "Ecole Polytechnique" of the University of Nantes, active member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. |
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Scientific secretary Dr. Pierre D'hondt (° 1950) is Deputy Director-General of SCK•CEN. He has a Master degree and PhD in Physics. Pierre D'hondt is the scientific secretary of the Scientific Board of SCK•CEN, vice-chairman of the NEA–Nuclear Science Committee, chairman of the NEA–Nuclear Science Committee Executive Group and of the European Working Group on Reactor Dosimetry (EWGRD). He is author or co-author of more than 150 papers and has (co-)edited about ten books. |
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Prof. Em. Dr. Yvan Bruynseraede Prof. Em. Yvan Bruynseraede (°1938) is a Solid State Physicist at the Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). He was until 2003 Head of the Laboratory of Solid-State Physics and Magnetism with more than 80 researchers (professors, postdoctoral fellows and students). He is Past-President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, the Belgian Physical Society, and the KULeuven Research Council. He is member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Vienna, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is currently member of the Board of Regents at KULeuven, the Board of Directors and the Scientific Council of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN), the Scientific Advisory Commission of VITO, and the Commission of Research Management of the VRWB. He has been and still is a member or chairman of numerous national and international Expert Advisory and Reviewing Committees. Yvan Bruynseraede published more than 400 refereed papers, has given more than 100 invited lectures and was promoter or advisor of many students and postdoctoral fellows. He (co)organised national and international conferences, and was chairman or member of International Conference Program Committees. |
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Prof. Em. Dr. Frank Deconinck Prof. Dr Frank Deconinck (° 1945) is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, lecturing at the Faculty of Medicine and director of the research group "Experimental Medical Imaging". He is president of the Board of Governors at SCK•CEN, Vice-President of the Board of Belgonucleaire and Vice-President of the European Nuclear Society. He authored, co-authored or edited 5 books, 94 articles, 180 communications and 50 abstracts, ±100 invited talks, 2 CD-Rs. |
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Prof. Em. ir. Chris Huyskens Chris Huyskens (o1945) is a nuclear physicist by academic education and a certified expert in Radiological Protection. He retired in 2009 as associate professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he was director of the Centre for Radiation Protection, and lectured in radiological health physics. He was once Chairman of the University Council of TU/e. Internationally he acted a.o. as the Executive Officer of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), as member of Committees 3 and 4 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and on the editorial boards of the Health Physics Journal and the Journal of Radiological Protection. Advisory functions in his home country included the Commission on Radiation and Health of the Netherlands Health Council, and the National Nuclear Safety Commission. Chris Huyskens served before as member of the Scientific Council of SCK.CEN and was chairman of the Advisory Committee for research in Radiation Protection & Radiobiology. |
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Prof. André Luxen
André Luxen (°1954) is a full professor at the Université de Liège, lecturing nuclear chemistry and organic chemistry. He is the director of the Cyclotron Research Center (CRC). His research interests include mainly neuroimaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and MRI and biomarkers development for PET. He is author or co-author of more than 215 articles. |
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Prof. Dr. Alex C. Mueller Alex Mueller, Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionelle at CNRS is Deputy Director of its National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics. IN2P3 operates more than 20 laboratories (2000+ staff) throughout France, mostly jointly with universities. Alex Mueller is in particular responsible for the accelerator development programme of the Institute (SPIRAL2, CERN, FAIR, X-FEL, ESS, MYRRHA…) and the spin-off of the fundamental research to society, namely nuclear energy, as well as medical and environmental application of nuclear methods. Alex Mueller got his academic education from University of Mainz finishing with a PhD (based on experimental work at CERN) in 1981. Habilitation in Caen 1985. With CNRS since 1982 he has done experimental nuclear research at many accelerator facilities. More than 140 publications in refereed journals. |
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Pardoen Thomas Pardoen is vice-president of the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and member of the academic council. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at UCL and was a postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University before becoming Faculty member at UCL in 2000. His research interests span the area of nano-, micro- and macro- mechanics of materials and systems, with an emphasis on multiscale modelling and experimental investigation of deformation and fracture phenomena. The main applications concern advanced metallic alloys, MeMS and NeMS, thin films, multifunctional architectured materials, adhesive and molecular bonding, fracture mechanics, welding, and forming. He has supervised 23 Ph. D., 15 post docs and published over 250 papers in international journals or proceedings, and 3 patents. T. Pardoen is a member of Euromech, ASME and MRS and a scientific expert for CNRS, FNRAE, EDF, ONERA (France), NWO & FOM (The Netherlands), NSERC (Canada), SNF (Switzerland) and Belgian representative for the Mirror group of the EU ESTEP platform. |
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Prof. Dr. Ir. Guido Van Oost Since 1999 Full Professor Plasma Physics at the Department of Applied Physics of Ghent University and Head of Research Units of Nuclear Fusion. Collaborations with TEC, IPP Prague, CEA Cadarache and other institutions in the framework of the coordinated nuclear fusion programme of the European Commission, and with several Russian research institutions.
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Prof. Em. Patrick Van Oostveldt Prof. Dr. Patrick Van Oostveldt studied biology at Ghent University and obtained a Ph.D. at the same university. He studied the effect of radiation on mammalian cells with different advanced microscopy techniques. The main interest of his group is the effect of low dose radiation and HEZ-particles on the organization of the cell nucleus and the aging of the cell. In collaboration with ESA (European Sapce Association), researchers from SCK-CEN and other institutes he performed different experiments in space to study the effect of HZE and microgravity on the functioning of the cell. Specific high content analysis techniques were developed and could be applied on samples exposed in low earth orbit. The results of this research were published in different peer reviewed journals and are frequently cited. |
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Ir. Jean Van Vliet Ir. Jean Van Vliet (°1950) is CEO of Belgonucléaire. He graduated in 1973 as civil engineer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a degree in Mathematics in 1974. |
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Prof. Dr. Eric van Walle Prof. Dr. Eric van Walle was appointed Director-General of SCK•CEN since 2006. In 1985, he obtained a PhD in Nuclear Physics at the KULeuven (Catholic University of Louvain). After visiting Princeton University (USA) for 2 years, he joined SCK•CEN in 1989 to perform research on material degradation. Since 2001, he became part-time professor in the Faculty of Applied Science of the same university. He teaches courses on Material Degradation within the Belgian Nuclear Higher Education Network (BNEN). Vice-chair of the Halden Reactor Programme (Norway), member of the Board of Belgonucléaire, he is author and co-author of some 250 international papers. |
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