{"id":458,"date":"2023-12-06T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2024-04-11T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:45:01","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated at the University of Leuven in Belgium (<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kuleuven.be\/en\/research-areas\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/research.kuleuven.be\/en\/research-areas\/index<\/a>) as a MSc (Master in Science; a 5 years Civil Engineer university degree). After my graduation as a MSc at the university I started a research career. First at the university of Leuven, thereafter at the Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN in Mol, Belgium) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sckcen.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sckcen.be\/en<\/a>). Since all the non-nuclear research activities at SCK-CEN were transferred from the Belgian National Government to the Flemish Regional Government, as a new Flemish Governmental Research Centre VITO (<a href=\"https:\/\/vito.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/vito.be\/en<\/a>) in 1991 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flemish_Institute_for_Technological_Research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flemish_Institute_for_Technological_Research<\/a>), about 30 % of the SCK-CEN research staff and research infrastructure were thus transferred to VITO. At VITO I continued my career as a scientific researcher until my retirement. Part of my research work can be found as publications at ResearchGate (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Etienne-Brauns\/research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Etienne-Brauns\/research<\/a>) (you can click there on one of the Research Items and view my corresponding publications (articles, conferences, patents, &#8230;)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated at the University of Leuven in Belgium (https:\/\/research.kuleuven.be\/en\/research-areas\/index) as a MSc (Master in Science; a 5 years Civil Engineer university degree). After my graduation as a MSc at the university I started a research career. First at the university of Leuven, thereafter at the Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN in Mol, Belgium) (https:\/\/www.sckcen.be\/en). Since&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/about-me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolute-relativity.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}