Curriculum Vitae Stefaan Vaes

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.