Winner: 2024 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Thibaut Van Acker
Ghent University
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So far, Thibaut is (co-)author of 32 publications in peer-reviewed international journals (h-index: 16 and 987 citations based on Google Scholar) and his work has been presented in > 70 lectures and posters on international conferences.
Thibaut was awarded 乐天堂app下载 2023 European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry at 乐天堂app下载 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia and recently, organized 乐天堂app下载 16th edition of 乐天堂app下载 European Workshop on Laser Ablation (EWLA) in Ghent, Belgium with over 190 participants from 26 different countries worldwide.
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