Dr.

Kurt VandenBussche is the Global R&D Director for Materials Characterization at

UOP LLC, A Honeywell Company, based in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

After obtaining a Masters and PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University
of Ghent, Belgium, Kurt joined the Shell Research and Technology Center in
Amsterdam, where he worked on refinery process modeling, catalyst development and
catalyst selection support for the refineries in the Shell Group. In 1996, he moved to
UOP where he started as a reaction engineering specialist and has since held a number
of technical and R&D managerial roles.

Kurt is a co-inventor on some 60 US patents and has co-authored some 20 scientific
papers. He has acted as guest editor for Wiley Inc in the area of process
intensification and is currently serving as the president of ISCRE Inc.



Updated March 25, 2014