Dirk Vanderschueren, PhD

• 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

Fusion Point

Steelmasters

Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal

OCAS

AM Gent