Stijn Van Hulle is a Full Professor at the Department of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ghent University and is spearheading a research group that focusses on the implementation of sustainable water treatment technologies in the industry for recovery of water, nutrients and energy (www.liwet.ugent.be). During the last 20 years, his group performed externally funded research on the optimisation and engineering of water treatment processes. He has a strong track record in translational research, often involving the upscaling of interesting lab-tested concepts into industrially-relevant pilot and full scale demonstrations. Examples of such pilot projects are WAVE (Vlaanderen Circulair), I-QUA and O3G (EU Interreg). Furthermore, several Vlaio Technology Transfer (TETRA) projects were executed.

Specific research interests include: electrocoagulation, physical-chemical treatment of industrial waste water (e.g. leachate), rain water treatment and re-use and AOP processes for water treatment. He is also responsible for the local and accessible expertise and service center on water technology (https://vito.be/nl/kennispunt-water/led-werking) which supports SME’s and non-profit organizations with advice and guidance concerning the production, treatment or management of their process and waste water.

He was one of the initiators of the Flemish Water Knowledge Centre (https://vito.be/nl/kennispunt-water).