Lieve De Doncker

Dr. Lieve De Doncker received her master's in physics from KULeuven in 1984 and her Ph.D. in solid-state physics in 1990, also from KULeuven. 

She was an active researcher at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK/CEN for a year in the safeguards field. After that, she worked for 23 years at IWT (now VLAIO), starting as a scientific advisor for the Impuls New Materials program. Then she moved into a coordinator role in IWT activities/funding in materials chemistry and processing, which allowed her to see relevant innovation throughout Flanders and Europe, thus building a broad network in Flanders' industry and research environment.

In search of new challenges, she brought her expertise, knowledge of funding, and network to UHasselt/imec, in 2016. Today Lieve is a business developer at the institute for materials research (imo-imomec), an imec research group at Hasselt University, and is also affiliated with imec (Leuven, Belgium) and EnergyVille (Genk, Belgium).