Organizing Committee Member

Gustaaf Schoukens

Gustaaf Schoukens

Professor
Ghent University
Belgium

Biography

Prof.dr.ir. Gustaaf Schoukens is a professor of polymer technology at the Ghent University (Belgium), faculty of Engineering. He received his degree in Chemical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) in 1971 where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1978. The subject of his Ph.D. research was “Non-linear viscoelastic behavior of dispersions”. He worked as a senior researcher from 1978 till 2004 in the private industry (Solvay; Central Research Laboratory) in polymerization and polymer processing. In 1994 he obtained the part-time position of lecturer at Ghent University, teaching “polymer processing”. In 2004 he received the full-time position of professor at Ghent University teaching all courses concerning polymer technology, including processing and polymerization processes. He is also involved in the courses concerning “environment and sustainable development” in general and teaching the course on the “rational use of materials” in particular. Polymer technology in general and polymer processing, including synthetic and biopolymers, in particular, are the main leads in his research program and its publications. The main research topics are now the development of artificial turf for sports applications and the development of biopolymers based on chitin or chitosan with biomedical properties. More recent research is the study of nanostructures, especially nanoparticles obtained by reaction engineering. These nanoparticles are already used in large quantities for coating paper and paperboard. I am an expert in the production of monofilaments for artificial sports applications and founded ERCAT (European Research Centre for Artificial Turf).

Research Area

Sustainable development and environmental technology Polymers Materials processing.

Talk to Us

Speak directly to one of our conference representatives by calling.


+0044-2033180199

Mail Us

E-mail us your questions about the conference. We will respond to your questions.


contact@euroscicon.com

Contact Us

Have questions?
We'll be in touch within 24 hours.


Contact Us

Address

EuroSciCon Ltd
35 Ruddlesway,
Windsor, Berkshire,
SL4 5SF, UK

EuroSciCon Events are produced by Euroscicon Ltd

EuroSciCon, founded in 2001 is a UK based independent life science Events Company with predominantly business and academic client base. The key strategic objective of EuroSciCon is to communicate science and medical research between academia, clinical practice and the pharmaceutical industry. Most of its events are in Europe and London or live streamed. EuroSciCon expanded its operations to international in association with Meetings International, Singapore. All major meetings of EuroSciCon and Meetings International will issue Continued Professional Education (CPD), Continued Education (CE), Continued Medical Education (CME) Credits.