Korneel Rabaey is professor at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Department of Biotechnology at Ghent University as well as honorary professor at The University of Queensland. Prof. Rabaey's main research efforts are on resource recovery from wastewater, decentralized treatments, industrial liquid sidestreams and CO2 streams from industry.
Erik Mannens is professor at the Internet and Data Lab, CTO at Data Science & Member of the Senior Management Team of imec since 2005. The primary objective of the Internet and Data Lab team is to advance research and technology in the sweet spot of the fusion of Semantics & Artificial Intelligence.