Honoring PhD Degree Holders (March 2024)
On March 23th, the ceremony honouring the PhD Graduates of ULiège was held at the University of Liege. 254 PhDs and 3 Ambassadors were honored.
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Jean-Pierre Leburton holds a degree and a doctorate in physical sciences from the University of Liège. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) has just named him the recipient of the 2021 "Pioneer award" from the Nanotechnology Council, as a pioneer for his research in the field of nanotechnologies.
The IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an association of thousands of professionals in the field of IT and telecommunications around the world. It is organized into more than 40 thematic societies bringing together around 419,000 members from 160 countries. Its main objective is to promote knowledge in the field of electrical and electronic engineering.
The Pioneer award rewards his research in the development of mathematical and physical models for the understanding of the properties of material structures of nanoscopic dimensions (ie of the order of millionth of a centimeter, and smaller), such as wires and quantum dots.
Professor Leburton was one of the first to introduce quantum-order confinement effects into the development of physico-mathematical models to predict or interpret the function and operations of electronic and optical devices of nanoscopic dimensions, such as transistors, the basic building blocks of computers, and lasers for high performance optical communications systems.
In 1979, after his doctorate at the University of Liège, he joined the semiconductor technology group of the firm Siemens A.G. in Munich, to learn about simulation techniques for electronic devices. It was in 1981 that he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he continued his academic career as a full Professor in 1991, Professor with Chair in 2003, and Professor of Physics in 2008. Since 2011, he is Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Throughout his career, Jean-Pierre Leburton has had the opportunity to visit and speak in many research institutions in the five continents, notably as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (1992) , or at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausaune (2000).
On March 23th, the ceremony honouring the PhD Graduates of ULiège was held at the University of Liege. 254 PhDs and 3 Ambassadors were honored.
Congratulations to Clément Delhez, Carla Hamann and Florence Mignolet! The 3 winners of the ULiège MT180 final will go on to defend our university's colors at the national final on May 16 at ULB!
Each year, the Foundation for Future Generations rewards young graduates who have presented high-quality work on "transforming the world". For this 2024 edition, five winners are graduates of the Université de Liège.