Christ Glorieux is a Professor at KU Leuven, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics, Leuven, Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Laboratorium voor Akoestiek en Thermische Fysica (ATF), at the Physics and Astronomy Department of KU Leuven in 1994. After working for one year as an R&D engineer in an industrial company, he continued his research into thermo-elastic properties of soft condensed matter by photoacoustic and photothermal techniques in ATF, with a postdoctoral visit at the Department of Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, in 1999 and 2000. His research interests include photoacoustic and photothermal methods, non-contact interferometric scanning, laser ultrasonic, and full-field imaging techniques for non-destructive testing (NDT).
Johann Robbens is head of the Blue Biotech Unit, and of the Food Integrity Unit at ILVO Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He also holds a position at the University of Antwerp in the Department of Biology. At ILVO, he is a member of the Steering Group ‘BioEconomy’, and of the Center of Expertise for Agriculture and Climate. He has a Master’s in Biotechnology, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Ghent University in Belgium. He held Post-doc positions at Ghent University (Belgium) and University Antwerp (Belgium). He is a partner in the Interreg 2 seas project, Horti-BlueC, and the Eranet Blue Bio project, BlueCC. He is a member of the management committee of the COST action Ocean4Biotech. He has several degrees in management. He holds a Postgraduate Management and a Master's in Portfolio Management. He also holds an MBA from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, at Ghent University. His research interests include marine biotechnology and food integrity.
