Annick Hubin
Biography
Annick Hubin is full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of VUB with a chair in Electrochemical Engineering, and is head of the research group SURF ‘Electrochemical and Surface Engineering’ in the department MACH ‘Materials and Chemistry’. She is mainly teaching in Bruface, the Brussels Faculty of Engineering, a joint initiative of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), offering masters in different engineering disciplines in English. Her research is looking at the applications of electrochemical engineering in fields such as corrosion, electrocatalysis, batteries and fuel cells, sensors, and nano materials. The focus is on the in-situ characterization of the solid-liquid interfacial behavior from the macroscopic to the nanometer scale. Since 2003, she took executive positions in the Faculty and the University in Educational Boards and also outside VUB as Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry. She was dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2012 to 2016. Currently she is academic director of the Faculty of Engineering for the next academic years.
Education
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Chemical Engineer
Great Distinction, July 1983
Metallurgical Engineer
Great Distinction, July 1985
Doctor in Applied Sciences
Greatest Distinction, March 1989
Academic position
2007- now professor (level ‘gewoon hoogleraar’), Department ‘Metallurgy, Electrochemistry and Materials Science’, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2008 - now Head Department ‘Electrochemical and Surface Engineering’, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Executive positions at VUB
2019- now Academic Director Faculty of Engineering
Executive positions outside VUB
2013 - now Elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts
Location
Room G5.51
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium