Kristiaan Neyts

Kristiaan Neyts is full professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT) since September 2023.

He received a degree in physics engineering in 1987, a doctoral degree in engineering in 1992 and became professor at Ghent University in the ELIS department in the faculty of Engineering and Architecture in 2000 after post-docs in Ghent and Berkeley. He is co-author of over 290 papers in the Web of Science core collection, and promotor or co-promotor of 30 completed PhDs. He founded the Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group (LCP) at UGent which has now 5 professors, 2 post-docs and 18 PhD students. He was also co-founder of the Center for Nano- and Bio-Photonics, a UGent sponsored Multi-disciplinary Research Network.