Special Recognitions 2009 - Science

Dr. Ir Christophe Caucheteur
Université de Mons

Christophe Caucheteur gained a brilliant degree in engineering at the Mons Hainaut Polytechnic Faculty in 2003. His final year dissertation, ‘A theoretical study of Bragg network sensors and the practical production of a temperature sensor’, earned him the Albert Dosin Prize for the best dissertation in electrical studies. Not content with winning a dissertation prize in 2003, Christophe Caucheteur repeated the act in 2007 for his doctorate and received the McKinsey & Company Prize, allowing him to demonstrate the social or economic relevance of his thesis. A promising young engineer, the results of his research have already been granted two official patents.

Christophe Caucheteur now works as an FNRS researcher. Despite his fledgling career, he is already the author of three books and no less than 30 articles in quality international journals. He has moreover participated over 75 times as a speaker at international science conferences.