Background
Education
Hasselt University – Belgium
Doctor of Science – Physics – 2011
Free University of Brussels – Belgium
Master of Science – Physical Chemistry – 2006
Bachelor of Science – Chemistry – 2004
Appointments
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology – Okinawa, Japan
Group Leader – Mechanics and Materials Unit – 9/2023 to present
Modeling topological transitions during the growth of films
Direct femtosecond laser writing of nanochannels
Effect of boundary curvature on the wrinkling of thin films
Staff Scientist – Laboratory of Prof. Eliot Fried – 11/2020 to present
Modeling topological transitions during the growth of films from seeded grains
Fabrication of porous suspended diamond films – Membrane technology
Effect of boundary curvature on the wrinkling of thin films – Wrinkled diamond
Postdoctoral Scholar – Laboratory of Prof. Eliot Fried – 11/2015 to 10/2020
Boundary curvature effect on the wrinkling of thin films – 2D materials, diamond windows
Through glass vias sealed with suspended diamond – Diamond growth, 3D processing
Effect of a surface tension imbalance on a partly submerged cylinder – Marangoni convection theory
Self-propelled droplets on liquid substrates – Marangoni convection experiments
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord – LSMP – CNRS – Villetaneuse, France
(cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Visiting Professor – Laboratory of Prof. Jocelyn Achard – 19/04 to 05/04, 2020
Growth of nanocrystalline diamond – Diamond growth, membrane technology
Université Paris Nord – LSMP – CNRS – Villetaneuse, France
Visiting Professor – Laboratory of Prof. Jocelyn Achard – 18/03 to 05/04, 2019
Diamond with nitrogen-vacancy color centers – Diamond growth, quantum technology
National Institute for Materials Science – Tsukuba, Japan
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow – Laboratory of Satoshi Koizumi – 11/2013 to 10/2015
Role of crystal orientation on phosphorus incorporation in diamond – Step-flow growth
Effect of gas flow on phosphorus incorporation in diamond during diamond growth
Acetone droplets in a Leidenfrost state on liquid substrates – Marangoni convection
Hasselt University – Hasselt, Belgium
Postdoctoral Scholar – Laboratory of Prof. Ken Haenen – 11/2011 to 10/2013
Role of grain boundaries on the piezoresistive effect in electrically conductive diamond
Fabrication of suspended diamond films – Pressure sensing
Wetting of hydrogen-terminated nanocrystalline diamond – Liquid separation
Hasselt University – Hasselt, Belgium
Graduate Student – Laboratory of Prof. Patrick Wagner – 9/2007 to 10/2011
Systematic growth of heavily boron-doped diamond films – Chemical vapor deposition
Construction of a Hall effect measurement tool – Hole mobility and resistivity
Electronic transport in heavily boron-doped diamond films – Matthiessen’s rule