Christ Glorieux

Christ Glorieux was born July 12, 1965, in Kuurne, Belgium, studied physics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven), Belgium, and graduated in 1987 with a thesis on “Investigation of the structure of amorphous silicon by electron spin resonance and electrical conductivity measurements.” He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 on the topic “Depth profiling of inhomogeneous materials and study of the critical behavior of gadolinium by photoacoustic and related techniques,” in the Laboratorium voor Akoestiek en Thermische Fysica (ATF) at the Physics and Astronomy Department of K.U. Leuven. After working one year as an R&D engineer in an industrial company he continued his research into thermo-elastic properties of soft condensed matter by photoacoustic and photothermal techniques in ATF, with a postdoctoral visit at the Department of Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA in 1999 and 2000. Now he is an Associate Professor at ATF, and is active in research and teaching physics and sounds and waves, general physics, and experimental physics to undergraduate students. He is leading a research group of typically 5 to 10 young researchers in the field of photothermal applications and laser ultrasonics for the fundamental study of soft and heterogeneous matter, the development of measurement techniques, and non-destructive evaluation.