Awards:
26) 2024: Methusalem Grant (3.5 M€)
25) April 2024: AHA!-Award on Research Valorization (category “Achieved”) of VOKA (Kamer van Koophandel) and University of Antwerp (Award Ceremony at the Antwerp Innovation Night)
24) July 2023: European Physical Society Plasma Innovation Award for our research on plasma-based CO2 conversion and the creation of a spinoff (together with G. Trenchev).
23) December 2022: Selected for the short list (3 candidates) of Belgium for de Frontiers Planet Prize 2022.
22) June 2022: Plasma Medicine Award: This is the highest recognition awarded by the International Society for Plasma Medicine (ISPM) for lifetime achievements in the field of the Plasma Medicine.
21) May 2022: Selected as one of the 30 “Europe’s best chemistry professors” to recreate the iconic 1927 Solvay picture, and to help shape the future of chemical innovation in Europe, at the occasion of the Cefic 50th anniversary.
20) 2022: ERC Proof of Concept Grant PREPARE: Most prestigious European research grant (for building plasma reactors in real-life environment).
19) March 2022: One of the four finalists, nominated for the AHA!-Award on promising research valorization of VOKA (Kamer van Koophandel) and University of Antwerp
18) September 2020: Educational Award of the Science Faculty
17) 2019: ERC Synergy Grant SCOPE with G. Centi, E. Rebrov and V. Hessel (2.5 M€)
16) 2018: Methusalem Grant (2.75 M€)
15) 2013 – 2016: Mandate as Francqui Distinghuised Research Professor
(= prestigious 3-year position, awarded to only four excellent professors in Belgium per year, by the Francqui Foundation (http://www.francquifoundation.be), to allow them to spend more time for research, by paying the salary of a substitute for part of the teaching responsibilities during 3 years).
14) February 2009: Winter Plasma Award 2009, in recognition for “Outstanding contributions in the field of laser ablation modeling”
13) September 2008: Lester W. Strock Award of the New England Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, in recognition for “Outstanding contributions in the areas of plasma and surface modeling”.
12) March 2005: Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award 2003 for a research paper, “as the most significant contribution to spectroscopy, published in Spectrochim. Acta Part B, in 2003”.
11) December 2004: Prize “Robert Oppenheimer Rosa Blanckaert” of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp.
10) May 2004: Prize “The Outstanding Young Persons” of the “Youth Chamber Belgium”, in the category “Sciences, Technology and Environment”.
9) June 2003: Alumni Prize of the “Belgian-American Educational Foundation” (competition with all Belgian researchers born after 1967).
8) December 2001: Prize of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten” in de category Exact Sciences (competition with all Flemish researchers born after 1960).
7) December 1999: Prize of the “Association Francophone de Spectrométrie de Masse des Solides”.
6) November 1999: Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award 1997 for 2 papers “as the most significant contributions to spectroscopy, published in Spectrochim. Acta Part B, in 1997”.
5) June 1998: Prize of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp, in the category “Exact Sciences”.
4) April 1998: Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Prize of the “Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Angewandte Spektroskopie”, Munchen, Germany.
3) October 1996: Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award 1995 for 3 papers, “as the most significant contributions to spectroscopy, published in Spectrochim. Acta Part B, in 1995”.
2) June 1996: DSM-prize for Chemistry and Technology: First prize for Flanders.
1) June 1993: Youth prize of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV)”: Best student chemistry at the University of Antwerp
