Welcome to the interim VKI Alumni Association website
Due to technical issues, the legacy VKI Alumni Association website has been retired even if the new one is not ready yet.
The current website is just a temporary solution to keep the online presence going and possibly propose a suitable new home for the VKI alumni association.
Our Mission
The Association of the Alumni of the von Karman Institute was officially founded in 2008. Its headquarters are located at the same address as the VKI, and its website is hosted on the VKI servers. The Association presently regroups a little less than 500 persons having followed the VKI Diploma Course (until 2009) or the VKI Research Master (from 2010 on), as well as other persons having been for at least 9 months either Doctoral Candidates, or Post-Docs, or ARO’s, as well as Faculty members or Visiting Professors.
The aims of the Association are described in its Statutes, and are to promote exchange of information among Alumni and between Alumni and the VKI, to coordinate the organization of events of common interest and to perform actions favouring the further innovative development of VKI and enhancing its visibility. This is achieved through the present website, by editing a periodic Alumni Newsletter, by organizing social or professional meetings, by maintaining the Alumni Directory, by aiding the mobility of VKI students, doctoral candidates and research engineers through specific grants and by creating an Alumni Help Network.
There are two categories of members of the VKI-AA:
- Free Members, who do not pay any annual fee
- Full Members, who pay an annual fee of 60 € to contribute to the funding activities of the Association, for the benefit of the VKI students, either RM students or PhD candidates
Free and Full members of the association have access to specific private pages of this website, those accessible by Full Members providing more information as indicated on the menus at the left of this screen.
Aims
The aim of the association is to promote the exchange of information among Alumni and between Alumni and the von Karman Institute, coordinate the organization of events of common interest and perform actions favouring the further innovative development of VKI and enhancing its visibility by strengthening the links between VKI and the Association ; establishing close relations with selected universities, research organizations, research sponsoring industries and governmental agencies. These aims are to be achieved by:
Assistance and support in finding and providing funds and/or fellowships for VKI researchers and professors visiting selected universities and research organisations and for foreign visiting scientists and professors coming to VKI.
Creating and maintaining a network of key partner industries having common technological interests with VKI; Alumni involved in such industries shall promote the activities of VKI; job fairs will be organised between VKI and the network of partner industries, granting early visibility of the freshly graduated Diploma Course students and PhD students.
Organigram (Election of Executive Committee, 2019)
Dedicated professionals driving our success
Tamas Regert (HUN)
President
Experienced Assistant Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Strong education professional skilled in Numerical Simulation, Fluid Mechanics, LaTeX, Matlab, and Engineering.
Benoit Bottin (BEL)
Treasurer
Benoît Bottin is an Adjunct Professor in the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department at the von Karman Institute (VKI), and Associate Professor at the Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB), where he also serves as Head of the Mechanical Department. He earned a PhD in Applied Sciences (summa cum laude) from the Université de Liège in 1999 and has contributed significantly to aerothermodynamic research, including the development of VKI’s plasmatron and icing tunnel design projects
Marshal Greenblatt (USA)
Vice President North American Branch
Christophe Schram (BEL)
Vice President European Branch
Christophe Schram is a professor in the Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, holding a PhD in aeroacoustics from the same institute jointly with TU Eindhoven and Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has advanced through roles from Assistant Professor to full Professor since 2003, and previously worked in industry and at the University of Cambridge.
Alessia Simonini (IT)
Secretary
Alessia Simonini, currently at the EU Commission, was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department at the von Karman Institute, specializing in experimental fluid mechanics and non-intrusive measurement techniques. She was honored with the 2019 Solvay Award for her ability to communicate complex scientific ideas clearly and effectively
Raimondo Giammanco (IT)
External IT Support
Raimondo Giammanco is helping for this interim website. Most if not all content uploaded appears under his name, but in reality he is only the operator/webmaster of this website.
Founding Members
31- Monsieur MISEGADES Kent Paul, domicilié à Cary, North Carolina (Etats-Unis).
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