Bart Vermang received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Ghent and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Leuven, both in Belgium.
He performed his M.Sc. final research project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where his interest in renewable energy was triggered. He obtained a Ph.D. for research in silicon photovoltaics (PV) at Imec - Belgium, followed by 2 personal Postdoctoral fellowships to work on thin film PV. A Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship to move to the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and a fellowship from the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) to return to Imec.
In 2016, Bart acquired a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant and became professor at Hasselt University in Belgium. Currently he is also PV program manager of the "PV technology & Energy systems" group at imec. Bart is a member of the Operational Board of EnergyVille, the Belgian Energy Research Alliance (BERA) board, the editorial board of the Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells journal (Elsevier), and the Young Academy of Flanders.