Bart Vermang

Bart Vermang received his M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Ghent and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Leuven, both in Belgium. He performed his M.Sc. final research project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where his interest in renewable energy was triggered. After that, he obtained a Ph.D. for research in silicon photovoltaics (PV) at Imec - Belgium, followed by two personal Postdoctoral fellowships to work on thin-film PV. A Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship moved him to the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and a fellowship from the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) returned him to imec. In 2016, Bart acquired a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant and became a professor at Hasselt University in Belgium. Currently, he is also coordinating Horizon 2020 project PERCISTAND, with a consortium of 13 international partners and a budget of 5 million EUR. Bart is a member of the Operational Board of EnergyVille, the Belgian Energy Research Alliance (BERA) board, the editorial board of the Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells journal (Elsevier), and the Young Academy of Flanders.