Programme
Faculty Research Day - 5 February 2026
The programme for next year's Faculty Research Day will be available online later this year. Below, you can find the programme of this year's edition (2025).
8.30 | Registrations open, Campus Drie Eiken, Building Q |
9.00 | Welcome by the dean Sabine Van Doorslaer |
9.10 | Inaugural lecture Tom Mestdag, Mathematics |
9.50 | Poster clip session |
10.05 | Inaugural lecture Sara Vicca, Bioscience Engineering |
10.45 | Coffee Break |
11.15 | Inaugural lecture Ben Jeurissen, Physics |
11.55 | Poster clip session |
12.10 | Panel discussion "Responsible use of artificial inteligence in science" |
13.10 | Lunch & poster session |
14.10 | Talk by Gudrun de Boeck, IMDO |
14.30 | Inaugural lecture Jakob Raymaekers, Mathematics |
15:10 | Coffee break & poster voting |
15.40 | Inaugural lecture Robby Vroemans, Chemistry |
16.20 | Best poster award & closing word by the vice dean Gerrit Beemster |
16.40 | Closing reception |
17.30 | End |
17.30 | Following the Faculty Research Day: Inaugural lecture by Professor Sonja Hohloch |
Inaugural lectures
- Tom Mestdag: Geometry and Mechanics: Best Friends Forever!
- Sara Vicca: Enhanced rock weathering as a climate solution?
- Ben Jeurissen: Probing tissue microstructure with magnetic resonance imaging
- Jakob Raymaekers: Challenges of cellwise outliers
- Robby Vroemans: From biobased catechol towards renewable plasticizers
Read the abstracts here.
Panel members
Interdisciplinary talk by IMDO
- Gudrun De Boeck: Science meets society and policy: create an impact with truly integrated education and research
Read the abstract here.