Joris Thybaut

Joris W. Thybaut is full professor at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University (Belgium) since 2014 after having obtained a PhD in chemical engineering at the same university in 2002. He broadened his scope via a post-doctoral stay at the Catalysis Research Institute (IRCELyon) in France and an industrial sabbatical in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His research activities are centered around intrinsic kinetic data acquisition and the fundamental modeling of complex reactions and reactors, as well as the exploitation of these models aiming at rational catalyst design as well as at industrial process enhancement. They fit in research projects at the local, national, interregional and international level, including bilateral collaborations with industry. At regular time intervals, schools on chemical kinetics and reactors have been organized since 2017, either open to the wide public or on demand