Johan Vlekken

Johan graduated as a Master in Physics  in 1993 at the K.U.Leuven and received his PhD in Applied Sciences in 1998 at the Institute for Materials Research (UHasselt). After his PhD, he continued his research for 2 more years as a Post-doc at UHasselt. During his Post-doc he also started a post-academic education in Business Management  at the department of Applied Economical Science at UHasselt, which he finished successfully in 2001.  

Before he started at B-Phot, Johan worked for more than 9 years in a SME active in the fiber optic sensing market. In his function of Chief Technology Officer, he managed different national and international projects (European projects, ESA, IWT, EUREKA, …) and was responsible for many product and business development activities in different areas such as Oil&Gas industry, Aerospace industry, Test&Measurement market and Civilengineering industry.

Johan is author/co-author of 49 publications  and inventor/co-inventor of 4 patents .