- Master of metallurgical engineering,
- 1986 PhD ‘Texture evolution during the production of steel sheet’,
- 1991 Post-doc at Steel Research Laboratories of
Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal,
- 1993-1994 Product development at OCAS for AM Gent.
- Product development of AutomotiveHigh Strength Steels a.o. IF HSS, DP and TRIP steels from 1994- 2000
- Hot strip mill Quality responsible and Process specialist at AM Gent from 2000 – 2010
- Guest professor at UGent from 2011, teaching:
- Welding metallurgy
- Physical metallurgy of steel products
- Relation between microstructure and properties of metals
- Since 2014:Consultant for the Steel Industry with Steelmasters
Consultant for the welding industry with FusionPoint
Consultancy
Previous work experiences