Benoit Michel

Benoit Michel (born 1950) is a Belgian engineer. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books on microcomputing, cinema, and stereoscopy.

Biography
Michel received his degree in civil engineering from Université de Liège, Belgium, 1976.

Professional history
Michel co-founded “Neurones”, one of the first 3D cartoon studios in Europe in 1989. After that, he switched to R&D project management in telecommunications, human-machine interaction, digital cinema, and multimedia and is now at the University of Louvain, successively managing the SIMILAR network of excellence on multimodal interfaces, the EDCINE project on enhanced digital cinema, the 3D Media research project focusing on stereoscopic and 3D imaging. He is now working on a medical imaging project called "InVivo/IGT" improving the way 3D images are driving proton therapy machines to cure cancer.

He is a member of the editorial board of ERCIM News, and is working as a consultant for the European Commission, the TWIST cluster of Walloon companies and various private companies and he is the editor of the free “StereoscopyNews” newsletter. He is co-founder of The European Spaceward Association, a non-profit association with a goal to preserve and improve life on earth by going into space.