General Director a.i.

Room E133
L.J.vanVliet@[tudelft.nl]

Management Assistant: Eleonora van der Meer-Gevaerts - QuTech

Professor Lucas van Vliet has been appointed to the position of the interim director of QuTech. Over the next six months, he will combine this role with his position as Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). Professor Van Vliet will succeed Kees Eijkel, who is due to retire at the end of September.

Lucas van Vliet studied Applied Physics at TU Delft and was awarded his doctorate cum laude in 1993, specialising in the development of image analysis methods. He subsequently joined what was then the Faculty of Applied Physics at TU Delft. He has conducted pioneering research in his field and has co-authored more than 200 academic publications and supervised over 60 doctoral candidates. In 1999, he was appointed full professor and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor. Van Vliet was Director of the Imaging Physics Department from 2009 through 2016. As a Medical Delta Professor he has combined his position in Delft with his role as Professor of Multidimensional Image Analysis at Leiden University since 2012. He also initiated and chaired the TU Delft Health Initiative from its establishment in 2009 until March 2017. He was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences from 2016 through 2020. Van Vliet holds several ancillary positions, including on the supervisory boards of Holland PTC, BPF and Planet B.io. In 2019 he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Lucas van Vliet: “I am very enthusiastic about my role at QuTech and look forward to getting to know the people there. Fortunately, I can count on the support of fantastic colleagues at both the Faculty of EEMCS and QuTech to be able to combine these two roles.”