Joseph Octave Indekeu#
| Membership Number: | 3840 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://fys.kuleuven.be/itf/groups/joi/members |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6160-6538 |
| Linkedin: | www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-o-indekeu-5457562a |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - 2028 Extraordinary Professor, Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2024 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS), Research Fellow (July-December)
- 2023 -present Emeritus Professor with formal duties, KU Leuven
- 2022 - 2023 Sabbatical year (Harvard, MIT, Hanoi, Okayama, Stellenbosch)
- 2020 - 2022 Chair of the Institute for Theoretical Physics of KU Leuven
- 2015 - 2016 Sabbatical year (MIT, Stellenbosch, Hanoi, Okayama, Paramaribo, Cabo Verde)
- 2011 - 2015 Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at KU Leuven
- 2007 - 2009 Representative of the Academic Personnel of the Sciences and Technology in the Academic Council of KU Leuven
- 2005 - 2007 Spokesperson for Science Communication at KU Leuven
- 2005 - 2006 Vice-President of Educational Policy at KU Leuven
- 2002 - 2005 Representative of the Faculty of Sciences in the Education Council of KU Leuven.
- 2002 - 2003 President of the Belgian Physical Society
- 2001 - 2023 Full Professor at KU Leuven
- 1994 - 2000 Research Director, National Fund for Scientific Research, KU Leuven
- September 1990 Habilitation, KU Leuven
- 1985 - 1987 Postdoctoral Fellow at RU Leiden and TU Delft, the Netherlands
- 1983 - 1984 Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
- February 1983 PhD in Theoretical Physics, KU Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Statistical mechanics
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Interfaces and wetting
- Superconductivity
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Liquid crystals
- Efficiency at maximum power of thermodynamic cycles
- Complex networks
- Colloid-polymer mixtures
- Line tension at a wetting transition
- Logarithmic fractals
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - 2026 Five Teaching Awards given by the bachelor students of engineering at KU Leuven
- 2013 Academy Prize for Science Outreach: Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
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- 1994 - 2023 Four Teaching Awards given by the students of physics, mathematics and informatics at KU Leuven
- 1990 Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
- 1986 Laureate of the inter-university travel grant contest
- 1983 Fulbright Scholar, Commission for Educational Exchange between the USA and Belgium
- 1983 Honorary Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
- 1980 Prize of the Order of King Leopold, Belgium
- 1975 National Laureate of the Davidsfonds Essay Contest
