Who I am

Dagmar R. D’hooge received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2010. He is associate professor at Ghent University since 2016. His research work focuses on the sustainable design of (de)polymerization and polymer processing techniques. The functional material design & process intensification are performed up to the industrial scale, using advanced in-house developed multi-scale modeling tools in combination with experimental validation. He performs research in chemical engineering, materials science, polymer science, and mechanics/rheology. He is a (co-)lecturer for polymer engineering courses at the Faculty, covering e.g. polymer reaction engineering, physics, and processing. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Matyjaszewski Polymer Group (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) in 2011 and the Macromolecular Architectures (MacroArc) Research Team (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) in 2013. He is also a former postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen). Since 2017 he has been a visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University. He is the elected head of the Department Materials, Textiles, and Chemical Engineering since Oct. 2022 (350 employees). He is co-author of 150 peer-reviewed full-length research articles, 6 book chapters, 1 book, and 3 granted patents, and coeditor of 1 book. He is an invited member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Since 2015, he has been involved in 13.1 M€ of research grants of which 7.6 M€ as PI/Promotor, 3.6 M€ as co-PI, and 1.9 M€ as a partner. He is a former ERC starting grant runner-up. He is the co-founder of two spin-offs, one dealing with software-based design for polymer synthesis and recycling (launched in 2021) and one producing sustainable polymer products in sports applications (launched 2022). Further valorization has been realized by the development of new sustainable polymer-based floor systems, currently commercialized by an SME.