Curriculum Vitae Stefaan Vaes
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Employment
At the Department of Mathematics of the KU Leuven, Belgium.
Professor (gewoon hoogleraar), since 10/2012
Professor (hoogleraar) 10/2009 - 09/2012.
Associate professor (hoofddocent) 10/2006 - 09/2009.
Part-time (10%) assistant professor (deeltijds docent) 10/2003 - 09/2006.
10/2002 - 09/2006: Research associate of the National Centre of Scientific Research (Chargé de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) at the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Paris, France.
10/1998 - 09/2002: Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders - Belgium (FWO) at the Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Distinctions
11/10/2017 Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (KVAB) in the section of natural sciences.
01-06/2017 Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
02-03/2016 Francqui Chair at the VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
09/06/2015 Francqui Prize awarded by the Francqui Foundation. Press release.
15/12/2012 Prize Vlaamse Wetenschappelijke Stichting of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
01/10/2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
20/08/2010 Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India.
06/06/2008 BAEF Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.
24/11/2006 Lucien Godeaux Prize of the Royal Society of Sciences in Liège.
03-04/2005 Peccot Chair at the Collège de France, Paris.
16/02/2002 Robert Stock Prize of the K.U.Leuven.
Grants as principal investigator
01/01/2023 - 31/12/2029 Methusalem structural funding of the Flemish Government.
01/01/2020 - 31/12/2023 FWO Research Project of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders.
01/01/2016 - 31/12/2022 Methusalem structural funding of the Flemish Government.
01/07/2014 - 30/06/2019 ERC Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council.
01/10/2013 - 30/09/2017 KU Leuven Research Grant of the Special Research Funds (BOF).
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014 FWO Research Project of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders.
01/09/2008 - 31/08/2013 ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council.
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012 KU Leuven Research Grant of the Special Research Funds (BOF).
01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010 FWO Research Project of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders.
Visiting positions
May 2011: Visiting professor at Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France (one month).
April 2009: Visiting professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France (one month).
Education
04/11/2004: Habilitation in Mathematics, University of Paris VII, France.
23/03/2001: Ph.D. in Mathematics, KU Leuven, Belgium. Supervisor: prof. dr. A. Van Daele.
07/07/1998: Master of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Belgium.
01/07/1996: Candidate of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Belgium.