Jeroen Beeckman is a professor at the ELIS Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University. He obtained his PhD in 2006 in which he worked on nonlinear optics of liquid crystals. From 2006 to 2012 he was post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO). In 2009 he was appointed as lecturer at Ghent University. He is currently full professor, head of the Liquid Crystals & Photonics group and also head of the Engineering Physics study program.
His research interests are devoted to the combination of optics, physics and electronics. In particular he is active in the field of electro-optic materials, ranging from liquid crystals to thin films (such as barium titanate & lead zirconate titanate). With these materials he is developing novel functionality and components in integrated photonics and flat optics. He is active in several EU and national funded projects and has several bilateral projects with industry.
Supervised PhD students
- Hamidreza Azarinia, Liquid Crystal in Microcavities for Optical Detection of Molecules in Water, 2010-09-24
- Pieter Vanbrabant, Optical behavior and switching of vertically aligned nematic liquid crystals, 2011-02-14
- Yi Xie, Tunability of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers using liquid crystal, 2015-02-20
- Thomas Ako, Silicon-on-insulator photonic components with a liquid crystal upper cladding, 2015-06-30
- Mohammad Mohammadimasoudi, Anisotropic films for optical applications based on liquid crystal and nanorods, 2015-09-25
- John Puthenparampil George, Integration of Ferroelectric Thin Films on Silicon for Electro-Optical Devices, 2016-05-11
- Oliver Willekens, New Approaches to Liquid Crystal Beam-Steering and Tunable Lensing, 2017-01-16
- Serena Bolis, Spatial optical solitons and optical gain in liquid crystal devices, 2018-03-27
- Inge Nys, Periodic liquid crystal superstructures stabilized by patterned anchoring, 2018-10-24
- Boxuan Gao, Design and Realization of Flat Optical Filters for Novel Applications, 2020-12-03
- Brecht Berteloot, Patterned photoalignment of liquid crystals and future display applications, 2022-09-08
- Irfan Ansari, Electro-Optomechanical Transduction in Silicon Photonics through PZT Thin Film Integration, 2023-12-19
- Migle Stebryte, Towards the Next Generation of Geometric Phase Photonic Components Using Chiral Liquid Crystal, 2024-01-18
- Xiangyu Xue, Micro-Structured and Geometric Phase Optical Gratings Using Liquid Crystals, 2024-02-20
- Ewout Picavet, A pathway towards the miniaturization of optical phase modulators, 2024-06-21
- Enes Lievens, Integration of Novel Ferroelectric Thin Films in Silicon Photonics for the Next Generation of Photonic Reservoir Computing, 2025-09-15
- Gilles Freddy Feutmba, Hybrid PZT-Silicon Photonics: Advancing Nonlinear and Electro-Optic Functionalities for Integrated Photonic Devices, 2025-10-07