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=General= Prof. Dr. ir. Christian V. Stevens (°1965) is currently Senior Full Professor of the Department of Green Chemistry and Technology at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Ghent University). His research interests are focused on chemical modification of renewable resources for the industry, microreactor technology, continuous flow chemistry and on synthetic heterocyclic chemistry related to agrochemical and medicinal applications. He is the director of the SynBioC research group (Synthesis, Bioresources and Bioorganic Chemistry). Prof. Stevens is also the coordinator of the UGent International Thematic Network on Green Chemistry and member of the Global Green Chemistry network, which brings together experts from all over the world. Prof. Stevens is the co-founder of the spin-off Caloritum/QPinch on the basis of his patent on the development of a chemical heat transformer, which is able to valorize industrial low temperature waste heat. Stimulating the circular Bioeconomy, he is the Series Editor on Renewable Resources that is published by Wiley (25 books published). Related to heterocyclic chemistry, he is currently Editor-in-Chief (together with Prof. J. Cossy and Prof. D. Black) of the book series “Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry iV” (Elsevier), a major reference work in the field of heterocyclic synthesis comprising 15 volumes. In support of the very important humanitarian efforts of Arkivoc, he is member of the International Editorial Board of the platinum electronic journal Arkivoc, which is designed to promote the dissemination of organic chemical research worldwide for the benefit of students and researchers, particularly those at less well-endowed institutions. Arkivoc publishes articles totally free of charge to authors and readers with no article processing or submission charges.

He is member of the International Advisory Board of the journal “Green Chemistry”, “Journal of Flow Chemistry” and “European Journal of Organic Chemistry”. He is an active member and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Britain and member of the American Chemical Society. He was laureate of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, received the award of the Royal Society of Engineers-Flanders and the award of the Society of Bio-engineers of Ghent University. In 2015, he received the First Prize in the Emerging Technologies Competition from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, London). =Education= He graduated at Ghent University as Engineer in Chemistry for the Agricultural Industries in 1988 (summa cum laude) and obtained a PhD in organic synthetic chemistry in 1992 working with Prof. Norbert De Kimpe as a FWO fellow (summa cum laude). He then performed post-doctoral work at the University of Florida, USA with the late Prof. Alan Katritzky as a NATO Research Fellow (1992-1993) (FWO postdoc mandate). He became group leader in the Center for Heterocyclic Chemistry in 1993 at the University of Florida. In 1994, he performed a short postdoctoral stay at the University of Alicante (Spain) with Prof. Miguel Yus and became Research Leader of the FWO-Flanders (Fund for Scientific Research) in 1995. In 2000, he became Associate Professor at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering and started the research group SynBioC. In 2008, he was promoted to Full Professor and became Senior Full Professor in 2014. The SynBioC research group (composed of 4 professors and about 45 researchers; 25 PhD students, 4 post-docs, 20 master students; 3 technicians, 1 administrative coordinator) has also a strong international network and collaborates with several well-known research groups.

=Publications= Prof. C.V. Stevens published over 310 international peer reviewed scientific papers (h = 41) and reviews and presented his scientific work at more than 120 international conferences. He lectured at the occasion of several international symposia (USA, Japan, India, Canada, Lithuania, China, Australia…). He holds also several patents on the synthesis and applications of heterocyclic compounds and renewable resources. He has published extensively on synthetic methodology for heterocyclic compounds and natural product analogues.

All publications can be found here.

=Other scientific output and impact= LEADERSHIP
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) since 2011.
 * Member of the Board of Directors of Ghent University since 2018 (second faculty member).
 * Member of the Research Council of Ghent University since 2013 - present.
 * Member of the Industrial Research Council since 2013 - present.
 * Member of the Commission Scientific Integrity (2015-2019)
 * Chair of the Department Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (2016-2017)
 * Director of the SynBioC Research group (35-40 people).
 * Member of the FWO commission (expert selection) (2014-2017).
 * Member of the Scientific Committee of several companies.
 * Christian Stevens is recognized as an expert in heterocyclic chemistry and flow chemistry, which is reflected by over 40 plenary and invited talks at international meetings.
 * Promotor of 37 defended PhD’s.
 * Supervision of 11 PhD students, 3 Postdocs, jury member of 92 PhDs (national and international).