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LAST UPDATED JUNE 28, 2008
Brief
Profile
Ultrasonics
– Materials
Evaluation
Education:
MSc Phys, Catholic
BSc. Phys,
** Reuters Insight
Expert Consultant since June 2008 **
Biography (or visit Declercq’s clan)
Nico Declercq was born in Belgium in 1975. He has received his BS degree in Physics from the Catholic University of Louvain – Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) in 1996 and has received his MS degree in Physics (Astrophysics) from the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) in 2000. He obtained his PhD degree in Engineering Physics from Ghent University (UG) in 2005, Summa Cum Laude and with Congratulations from the Jury (international PhD committee). After his doctorate, he was granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Belgian National Science Foundation. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in August 2006.
He has a tenure track appointment as Assistant Professor with the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in Atlanta GA, USA, with primary duties at the Georgia Tech Lorraine Campus in Metz-France (at the International UMI Georgia Tech – CNRS 2958 laboratory).
Declercq
received the International Dennis Gabor Award 2006 [info] [picture] [Press release] [whistle]
and the ICA Early Career Award 2007 from the International Commission for Acoustics "For outstanding contributions to ultrasonics, particularly for studies of propagation and diffraction of acoustic waves".
Recently he has received the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award 2008
Declercq is a member of the editorial board of the Open
Acoustics Journal (Bentham Scientific publishers Ltd). He is also a Young Scientists Deputy Member of the
International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU).
The ICU is the World’s largest congress on ultrasonics and originates from The
World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU) merged with Elsevier’s Ultrasonics
International (UI). In addition, he is guest editor for Elsevier’s Ultrasonics
journal.
Declercq has been a Reuters Insight Expert Consultant
since June 2008
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Specialization The global goal is to understand the interaction of sound and ultrasound with materials aiming at nondestructive evaluation of materials. Studies involve the diffraction of sound at periodical structures (phononic crystals, staircases, periodically corrugated surfaces and interfaces, multi-layered materials, acoustic barriers …) and the interaction of sound with fiber reinforced composites and other anisotropic materials. In addition medical applications are examined such as the multiple interaction of sound with objects in a blood flow. Investigations cover both linear and nonlinear interactions. One of the objectives is to understand complex situations where different phenomena take place simultaneously. Declercq and his team are specialized in experimental work and theoretical/numerical work. This
research is very important in aerospace industry (e.g. NDE of parts and
composite structures), telecommunication (e.g. the use of phononic crystals
for filtering of signals), acoustics of architectural masterpieces (e.g.
diffraction in The work produced by Declercq and his team has been widely covered in the media around the world (Nature, Washington Post, New York Times, The Economist, and many local newspapers in most countries). Philosophy The wonders of nature will never be understood, but it’s such a pleasure to try… because every attempt to understand a wonder, makes the wonder even bigger and meanwhile we gather bits and pieces that are useful for the study of science and engineering and their applications in industry and society. |
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Nico F.
Declercq, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
office
2212,
and
Georgia
Tech
UMI
Georgia Tech – CNRS 2958
Laboratory for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation
office
304,
2 rue
Marconi, 57070
E-mail:
nico.declercq@me.gatech.edu
http://www.me.gatech.edu/declercq/
Disclaimer: I intend to keep this site up to date, but
that is not always possible. Please report missing links or errors whenever you
notice any. Thanks!! Nico Declercq