Biography

As of January 1st 2021, the Executive Board of Delft University of Technology has appointed Professor Lucas van Vliet to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS).

Lucas van Vliet studied Applied Physics at the TU Delft and was awarded his doctorate cum laude in 1993, specializing in the development of digital image analysis methods. He subsequently joined what was then the Faculty of Applied Physics at TU Delft. In 1996, Van Vliet was awarded a personal talent grant by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has a track-record on fundamental as well as applied research in the field of multi-dimensional image processing, image analysis, and image recognition and is (co)author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He supervised over 60 doctoral candidates towards their PhD degree.

In 1999, Van Vliet was appointed full professor and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at TU Delft. Besides teaching several courses in Digital Image Processing as well as Signals and Systems for several decades, he served on the Board of Studies (2000-2003) and chaired the Board of Examiners (2007-2013). From January 2009 until December 2016 he was Head of the Imaging Physics Department and Group Leader of the Quantitative Imaging Group. Van Vliet was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences from May 2016 until the end of 2020. As a Medical Delta professor, he has combined his position in Delft with his role as Professor of Multidimensional Image Analysis at Leiden University since 2012. He also chaired the TU Delft Health Initiative from its establishment in 2009 until March 2017 and was chairman of Medical Delta’s triple-helix Program Committee from 2015 until 2017. In 2019 he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Van Vliet holds several ancillary positions, including on the supervisory boards of Holland Proton Therapy Center (Holland PTC), the Bioprocess Pilot Facility B.V. (BPF) and the Planet B.io. Foundation. He is also on the boards of three foundations: Delft University Fund (2016-), ERR Fund (2009-), and Nanoscience Delft (2016-). As past president of the Dutch Society for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (NVPHBV, 2003-2009), he is on the board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR, 2003-). Van Vliet was on the board of the Dutch graduate school on Computing and Imaging (ASCI, 2004-2013).

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