Prof. dr. Bart VERMANG

Professor Bart Vermang received his M.Sc. in physics from Ghent University (UGent) and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, both in Belgium. He conducted his master's thesis research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he first developed an interest in renewable energy. For his Ph.D. research, he studied silicon photovoltaics (PV) at imec in Belgium. This was followed by two postdoctoral fellowships in thin-film PV: a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at Uppsala University in Sweden and a fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) to return to imec.

In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant and became a professor at the University of Hasselt (UHasselt) in Belgium. Currently, he is the PV Program Manager of the PV Technology & Energy Systems group (PVtech) at imo-imomec, a joint research institute of UHasselt and imec. He also co-leads the Thin-Film PV (TFPV) team. In addition to thin-film PV research, the team is active in solar-to-molecule technologies.

He is a member of several boards and expert panels, including the operational board of EnergyVille, the executive boards of imo-imomec, the Belgian Energy Research Alliance (BERA), the International Energy Agency's Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA-PVPS), and the scientific board of the Belgian Climate Centre. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physics: Energy (IOP Publishing) and Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells (Elsevier).

Bart has coordinated European research projects, such as SWInG and PERCISTAND, and he actively contributes to science communication through platforms like Universiteit van Vlaanderen, Science & Cocktails, EDUbox Energy (VRT), and TEDx. He served as co-president of the Young Academy of Flanders (2023-2025) and was awarded Laureate in the Class of Technical Sciences by the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts (KVAB) in 2021. In 2025, he was granted a Francqui Research Professor mandate.