PROF. DR. KEVIN VAN GEEM

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Ghent University
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering
Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT)
Tech Lane Ghent Science Park - Campus Ardoyen
Technologiepark 125
B-9052 Gent, Belgium

Kevin.Vangeem@ugent.be

+32 9 264 55 97

Kevin Van Geem (full professor) is member of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University and director of the Center for Sustainable Chemistry. Thermochemical reaction engineering in general and in particular the transition from fossil to renewable resources are his main research interests. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT, visiting professor of Stanford and coordinates the experiments on more than a dozen pilot plant an d bench scale units. He is the author of more than two hundred scientific publications and has recently started his own spin-off company. He is involved in on-line and off-line analysis of complex petrochemical and biochemical samples using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. Artificial intelligence, first principle model development, scale-up, and process intensification belong to his main expertise. He is currently the coordinator of 3 different large-scale projects: IMPROOF (SPIRE H2020, Scientific coordinator 2016-2020), OPTIMA (ERC consolidator, Scientific coordinator, 2019-2024), WATCH (Catalisti, Scientific coordinator 2019-2023).