Staff
Picture of the Biophotonics group picture with from left to right: Niels Wouters, Dr. Wouter Saeys, Sandeep Sharma, Ben Aernouts, Nghia Nguyen, Chyngyz Erkinbaev, William Bruggeman, Dr. Ling Wang and Rodrigo Watté.
Professors
Wouter Saeys
MeBioS Biophotonics Group leader
 |
Wouter Saeys obtained his Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven), Belgium in 2002. On the basis of his Master’s thesis, he was awarded the engineering prize by the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (KVIV). In 2006, he obtained a PhD in Bioscience Engineering from K.U.Leuven under the supervision of Professors Herman Ramon and Josse De Baerdemaeker. After this, he specialised in light transport modelling during a six month stay at the School for Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, under the supervision of Dr. Suresh Thennadil and in chemometrics during a six month stay at the Norwegian Food Research Institute – Matforsk, Norway, under the supervision of Dr. Tormod Naes. In 2010 he became part-time lecturer at the Biosystems Department of K.U. Leuven and will become full-time tenure track lecturer in 2012. So far, he has been author of 38+ peer-reviewed scientific articles, 2 book chapters and 25+ papers in international conferences or symposia |
Postdocs
PhD students
Ben Aernouts
Rodrigo Watte
Niels Wouters
Tien Thanh Nguyen
Nghia Nguyen
Chyngyz Erkinbaev
Sandeep Sharma
Ahmed Chacon Iznaga
Lorenzo Léon Gutierrez
Visiting Scientists
Past members
Mizuki Tsuta
National Food Research Institute, Japan
Visiting Postdoc from July 2009 to June 2011
