Bio
Vincent Ginis received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering, summa cum laude, in 2007, and the M.Sc. degree in Photonics Engineering, summa cum laude, in 2009 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Ghent University (Belgium).
In May 2014, he received the degree of Doctor in Applied Sciences, summa cum laude and felicitations of the exam committee, with a doctoral thesis entitled Transforming Electromagnetic Reality -- On the Physics and Applications of Metamaterials. He completed this PhD, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, under joint supervision of Prof. Jan Danckaert, Prof. Irina Veretennicoff (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Prof. Philippe Tassin (Chalmers University).
Currently, Vincent is appointed as an assistant professor of Mathematics and Physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also works as a visiting professor in the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University. Vincent regularly appears in the general media to discuss research breakthroughs. In April 2019, he became copresident of the Young Academy of Belgium.